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Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner).

Afrikan Spir

Thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Absolute Beyond Consciousness Data Empirical Information Innate Intimate Moral Revelation
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
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Actual Country Justice Matter Realization State Thing
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Arbitrariness Distinct Each Empirical Higher Liberty Man Nature Other
A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel.
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Blameworthy Condition Crook Higher Swindler Vulgar
Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Developed Disgusted Good Intuition Moral Smell Trying
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
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it’s contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Acting Away Circumstance Compassion Selfishness
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
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
What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Action Disposal Field Individuality Large Man Use
The principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science.”
AFRIKAN SPIR

Field Fundamental Identity Logic Norm Principle Science Spring Thought
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… – “pourra”, Fr.) build justice.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Build Future Justice Liberty May
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion (“expansion,”, Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations (“s’étendre la méfiance et la haine entre,” Fr.).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Army Disconnect Growing Hatred Industry Masses Progress Technique
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Consider Development Example Goal Implement Man Moral
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer (“pluslongtemps”, Fr.).
AFRIKAN SPIR

Appreciate Consciousness Evolution Higher Improvement Leading Life Moral Much Risk Too

Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner).

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Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner).

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