Men in the end, like all of them! The human wild beast, seeking his own welfare at the cost of his fellow, perpetuating the disorders of pain for the majority, as long as he can enjoy plenty during the few years of his life.

Ah! Where could he meet with that superior being, ennobled by the worship of reason, doing good without hope of reward, sacrificing everything for human solidarity, that man-God who would glorify the future! "Come along, Gabriel," continued the bell-ringer.

"Do not let us lose time it is only a few minutes' work; and then--flight!" "No," said Luna firmly, coming out of his reverie, "you shall not do this; you ought not to do it.

It is a robbery you suggest to me, and my pain is great, seeing that you reckoned on me; others rob from fatal instinct or from corruption of soul, you have come to it because I tried to enlighten you, because I tried to open your minds to the truth.

Oh! it is horrible, most horrible!" "What is the use of all these objections, Gabriel?
Is it not a bit of wood?
Whom do we harm by taking its jewels?
Do not the rich rob, and everyone who possesses anything?
Why should we not imitate them ?" "For this very reason, because what you propose doing is a suggestion of evil, because it perpetuates once more that system of violence and disorder which is the root of all misery.