The miracles accepted by the Protestants were also believed in by the Catholics.
He was one of the remarkable figures of his age.

We might almost say that he was a new type--a nineteenth century humanitarian and pacifist in an eighteenth century environment.

He was a born reformer, and he devoted his life to the construction of schemes for increasing human happiness.

He introduced the word bienfaisance into the currency of the French language, and beneficence was in his eyes the sovran virtue.
There were few departments of public affairs in which he did not point out the deficiencies and devise ingenious plans for improvement.

Most of his numerous writings are projets--schemes of reform in government, economics, finance, education, all worked out in detail, and all aiming at the increase of pleasure and the diminution of pain.