But as to the first, when all men are brothers, why not a universal language?
As to the second, the organic perfectibility of the vegetable world is undisputed, is Nature less powerful in the nobler existence of thinking man?
The very destruction of the two most active causes of physical deterioration--here, luxurious wealth; there, abject penury,--must necessarily prolong the general term of life.

(See Condorcet's posthumous work on the Progress of the Human Mind .-- Ed.) The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease.

Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely.

And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.
Oh, yes, to such a consummation does our age approach!" The venerable Malesherbes sighed.

Perhaps he feared the consummation might not come in time for him.