Pinheiro loved distinctions, and could no more conceive of a State without great dignitaries than of an army without drum-majors; and as he also loved, or thought he loved, liberty, equality, and fraternity, he combined the good and the evil of our old society in an eclectic philosophy which he embodied in a constitution.
Excellent Pinheiro! Liberty even to passive submission, fraternity even to identity of language, equality even in the jury-box and at the guillotine,--such was his ideal republic.

Unappreciated genius, of whom the present century was unworthy, but whom the future will avenge! Listen, proprietor.

Inequality of talent exists in fact; in right it is not admissible, it goes for nothing, it is not thought of.

One Newton in a century is equal to thirty millions of men; the psychologist admires the rarity of so fine a genius, the legislator sees only the rarity of the function.

Now, rarity of function bestows no privilege upon the functionary; and that for several reasons, all equally forcible.
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