Clergyman's

If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
- African Spir

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed , it may also heighten unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
- African Spir

The peculiar value that such and such activity can have for a man rather really depends on the spirit in which it was deployed than its importance or its scope. Thus the most humble work can be accomplished by a great genius, whereas the highest functions , such as to rule over a whole people, can be practised in a petty spirit of personal glorification, as it is frequently seen."", Fr.)
- African Spir

We would not permanently change by violence a state of affairs; we can repress resistances for a certain time , but not attain thus a lasting result
- African Spir

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
- African Spir

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
- African Spir

When under the influence of certain reasons the low instincts are unbridled , the brute appears and rule over , stifling every noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin of any humanity in man.
- African Spir

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of ""science""… We would not imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!
- African Spir

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to the inner development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering soul can set oneself and stick to everything that is noble and generous.
- African Spir

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to the inner development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering soul can set oneself and stick to everything that is noble and generous.
- African Spir