The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis, or New Discourses on the Secret Sciences

New Conversations

—of morals; we are all Shepherds original: "Pasteurs" of one another, and God has charged us each in particular with the salvation of our neighbor. Woe to him who works only for his own sanctification The religious process of being made holy or purified from sin. and who neglects that of his brothers; but it is doing nothing to merely correct individual faults, or to oppose only the details of the abuses that creep into Morality original: "Morale." In this period, the term referred broadly to the study of ethics and human conduct.; one must go to the source, undermine the foundations of all disorders, recognize the principle of general corruption and destroy it. I hope that God has reserved this glory for me; I have recognized the evil, and I have the remedy for it.

"Ah! Sir," I said to him, "let me share in this glory, make this evil known to me, and permit me to help you cure it."

"I see nothing in you," he replied, "that obliges me to refuse what you ask of me. This zeal, so worthy of praise, which you show me for good Morality, is the effect and the sign of the little attachment you have for Aristotle: that is the great point; whoever loves Aristotle cannot have upright Morality. As for Descartes René Descartes (1596–1650), the French philosopher whose "New Philosophy" was often seen as a radical alternative to the traditional Aristotelianism taught in schools., he is a melancholy man, full of high opinions for his own daydreams, who wanted to go further