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Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate…) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.

Afrikan Spir

For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Activity Aiming Display Deployment Material Outward Pleasant Profit
It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Best Disown First Lentil Man Sale Themselves Time
There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Empirical Man Moral Nature Radical
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc – added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Add Alcohol Certain Influence Man Under War
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (“formes”, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Actual Form Necessary Politeness Social State
The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Do Good Only Really Thing Valuable
Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider’s eyes.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Alas Catch Eye Flies Many Mountain Spider Those Top Trying
The precept to worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Inward Moral Percept Recommend Wish Worship
(“Le concept de l’absolu, d’où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d’identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.”)
AFRIKAN SPIR

Concept Constitute Dans Domaine Moral Morales Normes Principle
For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Civilization Consciousness Disappear Higher Improvement Leading Ourselves Risk Threaten Time
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Crime Demand Equality Interest More Much Understood Work
The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Art Away Development Intellectual Man Rather War
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain – fratricidal war.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Cain Deliver Humanity Malediction Sacred Supreme Urgent War Work
There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Contradiction Different Field Fighting Religion Science
It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Able Basis Establish Morality Principle Real
A good man (“un homme de bien”, Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Eternity Good Man Outlives Perishes Wholly

Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate…) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.

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