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• What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.
  We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature....
• We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced.
  It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. -- Albert Schweitze...
• All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine of Continuity.
  Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond question....
• Love truth, but pardon error. -- Francis M.
  Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Discours sur l'Homme, Discours 3...
• Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Voltaire
• SMILEY :-) "We are all, each of us, alone
• To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions .
  .. within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....