If, in this apportionment, errors are committed, if certain individuals have not been employed according to their capacities, those defects of detail diminish in the sublime conception of the whole.

The poorest man included in this association has his place, his work, his reason for being there; each is something in the whole.
There is nothing like this for man in the state of nature.

As he depends only upon himself, it is necessary that he be sufficient for everything.
All creation is his property; but he finds in it as many hindrances as helps.

He must surmount these obstacles with the single strength that God has given him; he cannot reckon on any other aid than chance and opportunity.

No one reaps, manufactures, fights, or thinks for him; he is nothing to any one.