It was a great delight to him to see the wonder in those virgin minds, entering tumultuously into the luminous palaces constructed by human thought during the last century.
The description of the future of humanity inflamed all Luna's ardour.
He spoke of the happiness of men, after a revolutionary crisis which would change all the organisation of humanity with mystic rapture, like a Christian preacher describing heaven.
"Man ought to seek happiness solely in this world, for after death there only existed the infinite life of matter with its endless combinations, but the human being was effaced as entirely as a plant or an animal--he fell into oblivion when he sank into the tomb.
Immortality of the soul was one of the illusions of human pride worked up by religions, who laid their foundations on this lie.

It was only in this life that man could find heaven.

Everyone embarked on immensity in the same ship, the earth.

We were all comrades in our dangers and our struggles, and we ought to look upon one another as brothers seeking the common welfare.

And what about the unequal distribution of goods, the division of classes, the ability to work, and, above all, the struggle for existence, that the philosophers and poets of the oppressing classes paint as an indispensable condition of progress?
Communism is the holiest aspiration of humanity, the divine dream of man since he began to think in the first dawn of civilisation.