Take it and copy it. If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. The folly of the revolution was in aiming to establish virtue on the earth. When you want to make men good and wise, free, moderate, generous, you are led inevitably to the desire of killing them all. I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law.
Nature has no principles.
She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.