Now, if equality is not absolute, there is no equality.
From the poet we descend to the novelist; from the sculptor to the stonecutter; from the architect to the mason; from the chemist to the cook, &c.

Capacities are classified and subdivided into orders, genera, and species.

The extremes of talent are connected by intermediate talents.

Humanity is a vast hierarchy, in which the individual estimates himself by comparison, and fixes his price by the value placed upon his product by the public." This objection always has seemed a formidable one.

It is the stumbling-block of the economists, as well as of the defenders of equality.