Clergyman's

There are 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.
- African Spir

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
- African Spir

Morality, to be effective, has to be well-reasoned. To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a kind of education using constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make an artificial thing, devoid of lasting value.
- African Spir

It must be all the same to the citizens of a country that their governing speak such language or such other ; likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
- African Spir

Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations , that vie with one another , by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder .
- African Spir

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
- African Spir

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.
- African Spir

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ; all that involve a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
- African Spir

In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal good.
- African Spir

Infringing upon the right of a single person, we overthrow the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break the undertakings enter unto , nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly in another.
- African Spir