An amelioration of society to be produced merely by reason and conviction wears much more the promise of permanence than any change effected and maintained by force.

The unlimited exercise of private judgement is a doctrine inexpressibly grand and captivating and has a vast superiority over those systems where every individual is in a manner the slave of the public.

The substitution of benevolence as the master-spring and moving principle of society, instead of self-love, is a consummation devoutly to be wished.

In short, it is impossible to contemplate the whole of this fair structure without emotions of delight and admiration, accompanied with ardent longing for the period of its accomplishment.

But, alas! that moment can never arrive.