Happy Independence

"Our hope for the future of the human species may be reduced to three important points: the destruction of inequality among nations; the progress of equality within nations themselves; and finally, the real improvement of humanity.

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Thus the day will come when the sun will shine only on free men born knowing no other master but their reason; where tyrants and their slaves, priests and their ignorant, hypocritical writings will exist only in the history books and theaters ... "

Translation of

The Marquis of Condorcet

Sketch of Progress of the Human Mind

1794