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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good.

Afrikan Spir

They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of “science”… We would not (On ne saurait”, Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!
AFRIKAN SPIR

Blindness Came Extraordinary Method Moral Ran Rise Science Slaughter.
Having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others (“autrui”, Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
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Consideration Irrespective Physically Regardless Sickening Smell
In which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others (“devant les autres”, Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society (“mondaine”, Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit”, Fr).
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Advantage Appear Front Hoping Mainly Mostly Oneself Some
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.
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Crime Demand Equality Interest More Much Understood Work
As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards (“marcher vers”, Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.
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Able Delusion Destiny Error Freed Humanity Long Man Toward
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part – a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection”
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Car Devoted Higher Integral Life Morality Part Perfection Simply Theory
Likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
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Adhere Complete Everyone Guarantee Likewise Long Religion Same
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
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Moral Physical Reality Sacrifice Shadow
(“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
System that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, “leur impose”, Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
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Budget Crushing Impose Mainly Maintain Perpetual System Tension
The military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it (“peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent”, Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.
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Example Military Predominance Sparte Themselves Therefore
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
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.”
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Field Fundamental Identity Logic Norm Principle Science Spring Thought
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
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Arbitrariness Distinct Each Empirical Higher Liberty Man Nature Other
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
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (“et avec cela”, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (“moi”, Fr.) so hardly worthy (“digne”, Fr.) of it.
AFRIKAN SPIR

Mean Men Perishable Petty Self Worship

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