210 APPENDIX A. 



" We say that man is an egotist, and neverthe- 

 less his sweetest pleasures come to him through 

 others. He only tastes them on condition of shar- 

 ing them." 



" If one could continually satisfy his desires, he 

 would never have time to desire. Happiness then 

 is necessarily composed of alternatives. It could 

 not exist at*a constant level." 



On the subject of nations and conquerors : 



" To each conqueror can be said, when he has 

 ceased tormenting our poor globe, ' Would you 

 not have been able to tilt equally well against a 

 little globe of pasteboard ? ' ' 



" The laws of war, do they say ? As if war 

 were not the destruction of all laws." 



" War has been represented as necessary to pre- 

 vent the too rapid increase of the population, but 

 war mows down the flower of the young men, 

 while it spares the men disgraced by nature. 

 Hence it tends to the degeneration of the species." 



Then the writer turns his shafts against medi- 

 cine : 



" In some respects medicine is directly opposed 



to the will of nature, which tends to perpetuate the 



strongest and best of the species, and to abandon 



