If a man has nothing, he has a right to any surplus with which another gorges himself.

What do I say?
He has a right to seize the indispensable, and, rather than die of hunger, he may cut another's throat and eat his throbbing flesh....

Man has a right to self-preservation, to the property, the liberty and even the lives of his fellow creatures.

To escape oppression he has a right to repress, to bind and to massacre.

He is free to do what he pleases to ensure his own happiness." It is plain enough what this leads to .-- But, let the consequences be what they may, whatever he writes or does, it is always in self-admiration and always in a counter sense, being as vain-glorious of his encyclopedic impotence as he is of his social mischievousness.
Taking his word for it, his discoveries in Physics will render him immortal[3110]: "They will at least effect a complete transformation in Optics....