He will have confided to you His intention of changing the pattern of mankind." M.de Vilmorin's fine ascetic face grew overcast.

"You are profane, Andre," he reproved his friend.
"I assure you that I am quite serious.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention.

You must change man, not systems.

Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried?
Surely not.