The millennium is dawning and it is once more Reason, which should set it up. In this way we shall owe everything to its salutary authority, the foundation of the new order of things as well as the destruction of the old one. ***** NOTES: [Footnote 3301: "Discours de la Methode."] [Footnote 3302: This is evident with Descartes in the second step he takes. (The theory of pure spirit, the idea of God, the proof of his existence, the veracity of our intelligence demonstrated the veracity of God, etc.)] [Footnote 3303: See Pascal, "Pensées" (on the origin of property and rank). The "Provinciales" (on homicide and the right to kill).--Nicole, "Deuxième traité de la charité, et de l'amour-propre" (on the natural man and the object of society). Bossuet, "Politique tirée de l'Ecriture sainte." La Bruyère, "Des Esprits forts."] [Footnote 3304: Cf. Sir. John Lubbock, "Origine de la Civilisation."--Gerand-Teulon, "Les Origines de la famille."] [Footnote 3305: The principle of caste in India; we see this in the contrast between the Aryans and the aborigines, the Soudras and the Pariahs.] [Footnote 3306: In accordance with this principle the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands passed a law forbidding the sale of liquor to the natives and allowing it to Europeans. (De Varigny, "Quatorze ans aux iles Sandwich.")] [Footnote 3307: Cf. Le Play, "De l'Organization de la famille," (the history of a domain in the Pyrenees.)] [Footnote 3308: See, especially, in Brahmin literature the great metaphysical poems and the Puranas.] [Footnote 3309: Montaigne (1533-92) apparently also had 'sympathetic imagination' when he wrote: "I am most tenderly symphathetic towards the afflictions of others," ("On Cruelty"). (SR.)] [Footnote 3310: Voltaire, "Dic. Phil." the article on Punishments.] [Footnote 3311: "Resumé des cahiers," by Prud'homme, preface, 1789.] [Footnote 3312: Voltaire, Dialogues, Entretiens entre A. B. C.] [Footnote 3313: Voltaire, "Dict.Phil.," the article on Religion. "If there is a hamlet to be governed it must have a religion."] [Footnote 3314: "Le rêve de d'Alembert," by Diderot, passim.] [Footnote 3315: "If a misanthrope (a hater of mankind) had proposed to himself to injure humanity what could he have invented better than faith in an incomprehensible being, about which men never could come to any agreement, and to which they would attach more importance than to their own existence?" Diderot, "Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Maréchale de....." (And that is just what our Marxist sociologist, psychologists etc have done in inventing a human being bereft of those emotions which in other animals force them to give in to their maternal, paternal and leadership instincts thereby making them happy in the process.. SR.)] [Footnote 3316: Cf. "Catéchisme Universel," by Saint-Lambert, and the "Loi naturelle ou Catéchisme du citoyen français," by Volney.] [Footnote 3317: "Supplément au voyage de Bougainville."]