Force is advocated, when the dagger or the poisoned draught or the extermination of a city may lead the individual straight forward to his object.
Religion is shown to be a political engine.

Hypocrisy is a mask that must be worn.

The sanctities of ancient use and custom controlling appetite have no place assigned them in the system.

Action is analyzed as a branch of the fine arts; and the spirit of the age, of which the philosopher makes himself the hierophant, compels him to portray it as a sinister and evil art.
In the civilization of Italy, carried prematurely beyond the conditions of the Middle Ages, before the institutions of mediaevalism had been destroyed or its prejudices had been overcome, we everywhere discern the want of a co-ordinating principle.

The old religion has died; but there is no new faith.