Its entire vocabulary consists of about a hundred words, while all ideas are reduced to one, that of man in himself: human units, all alike equal and independent, contracting together for the first time.

This is their concept of society.

None could be briefer, for, to arrive at it, man had to be reduced to a minimum.

Never were political brains so willfully dried up.

For it is the attempt to systematize and to simplify which causes their impoverishment.