Clergyman's

A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
- African Spir

As humanity has begun with flint tools, and has arrived little by little to the so powerful and perfected machines of today, so man, by shaping himself generation after generation, will arrive to a degree of perfection of which, up to here, the exemple was given to us only by rares individuals.
- African Spir

See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself , has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ; thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
- African Spir

When a man make of his personnal interests the mainspring of his life and he is greedy to make use of everything that can benefit him, he naturally enters into conflict with other persons, acting also in their interests, hence the disagreements that can become a hundred years old, and drive whole generations to a mutual hate.
- African Spir

When a man make of his personnal interests the mainspring of his life and he is greedy to make use of everything that can benefit him, he naturally enters into conflict with other persons, acting also in their interests, hence the disagreements that can become a hundred years old, and drive whole generations to a mutual hate.
- African Spir

See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself , has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ; thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
- African Spir

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
- African Spir

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
- African Spir

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
- African Spir

It is erroneous to consider the multiplication of needs as a sign of progress, to think that it is necessary to arouse in the people still unpolished , new needs to bring them to a more civilised life. Similarly it is erroneous to expect to measure the degree of culture of a man to the degree of refinement he make in his methods of pleasure
- African Spir