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formed by elements: these are the 
various configurations of its parts. 
The souls are particles emanated 
from the universal soul. 
They partake therefore of immor- 
tality: "their annihilation is impossi- 
ble. 
Death is their passage from a body 
to another. 
Space is infinite. Time is infinite. 
God is infinite. 
Nature is incommensurable: the 
plurality of worlds is evident. 
The smallest star is a sun similar 
to ours, shining over planets and 
worlds like ours. 
We revolve round the sun; they 
revolve round their suns. 
The sun, the stars, the moon, and 
the planets are globes. Our earth is 
also a globe. 
All the worlds have inhabitants 
like or unlike those of our globe. 
The souls travel from bodies to; 
bodies, and from worlds to worlds. 
This is the spiritual metempsycho- 
sis or passage; the real palingenesy 
or renovation and resurrection. 
Every thing is passage and renova- 
tion in nature and man. 
Such is the birth of man, his child- 
hood and his education. Such will 
be his death. 
Man will not be annihilated at 
this passage, nor die forever. He 
will have many lives yet to go 
through. 
Rewards and punishments, await 
us in these after lives, according to 
our previous behaviour. 
God is good: men are wicked. 
Why so? 
Because God is perfect and men 
imperfect. 
The imperfections of men create 
moral evils and disorders. 
Philosophy and wisdom correct 
these evils and disorders. 
Philosophy is not wisdom; but it 
leads to it, it is the love of good. 
Science is not philosophy; but it 
leads to it. Science is the knowl- 
edge of order. 
The philosopher acknowledges no 
other country but his family and 
mankind; he" waits for the return of 
primitive equality, ere he may adopt 
another. 
He tells the truth without fear, it 
is his duty. 
He deplores and unveils the crimes 
of men and nations. 
What will be his rewards? perse- 
cution, contempt or neglect. 
# If he is asked what God he wor- 
ships, let him answer: a God whose 
body is light, and whose soul is 
Truth. 
He believes when he has strong 
motives of credibility, and he obeys 
when he sees the need of it; but not 
otherwise. 
Let him respect the law, when it 
is respectable. 
There is an Eternal Law, ante- 
rior to all other laws, and their im- 
mortal type. 
This law is the law of universal 
order and harmony. 
Every man is tacitly bound to pre- 
serve this law, and to contribute to 
the preservation of moral order. 
The rulers, priests, and warriors, 
who disturb this order, are as many 
banes of society. 
The tyrants and slaves are the 
hammers and anvils of society. Let 
us beware to be crushed between 
them. 
Wicked men labor under a men- . 
tal disorder. Let- us try to cure it. 
Wisdom is the remedy to be used. 
Let us exercise universal benevo- 
lence. We must love all men even 
when they are wicked. 
Let us correct the evils of human 
nature by education and instrue- , 
tion. 
Happiness is offered to all men, 
let them reach it. 
Do not deny this right to any one 
except to those madmen who seek 
their happiness in the misfortunes of 
others. 
The regeneration of mankind, 
will never be completed until the 
insatiable demon of property is abol- 
ished. 
