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Nothing that I do, beyond agitating in concert with others for a perfect world, makes any difference to the state of the world, given the vastness of the forces ranged against me. Therefore, I can do what I like until such time as the structure of the world brings about perfection. Before that state of perfection, the exercise of virtue is meaningless; after it, automatic.

religion is practically dead save at the margins of society, mankind has converted en masse to self-worship. If men do bad things it is because something has perverted them from their original goodness; and since most men are partial to themselves, and easily blind themselves to their own voluntary faults, they locate their own evil elsewhere than in their hearts.