He had faith in liberty, truth, and virtue.

He had in his soul that unqualified devotion towards the human species which is the charity of philosophers.

He detested society, for in it there was no place awarded to him; but what he hated with unmitigated hate was the state of society; its prejudices--its falsehoods.

He would have recast it, less for himself than for the benefit of mankind.

He would have consented to be crushed beneath its ruins, provided those ruins were to give place to his ideal plan of the government of reason.