All Our Knowledge Begins With The Senses...

Fallacious And Misleading Arguments Are Most Easily Detected If Set Out In Correct Syllogistic Form.

In The Natural State No Concept Of God Can Arise, And The False One Which One Makes For Himself Is Harmful. Hence The Theory Of Natural Religion Can Be True Only Where There Is No Science; Therefore It Cannot Bind All Men Together.

Democracy Is Necessarily Despotism, As It Establishes An Executive Power Contrary To The General Will; All Being Able To Decide Against One Whose Opinion May Differ, The Will Of All Is Therefore Not That Of All: Which Is Contradictory And Opposite To Liberty.

Animals... Are There Merely As A Means To An End. That End Is Man.

There Is No Virtue In Penance And Fasting Which Waste The Body; They Are Only Fanatical And Monkish.