Men have felt that, without these ideas, they would all go mad.

They had only the choice between stupidity and madness.

Very reasonably they chose stupidity.

Such is the foundation of moral ideas." "What a paradox!" exclaimed Romilly.
The physician calmly proceeded: "The distinction between good and evil in human societies has never emerged from the grossest empiricism.

It was constituted in a wholly practical spirit and as a simple convenience.