CHAPTER 32"Oh Monsieur," I say to this dishonest man, shuddering at hisspeech, "is it possible you have been able to conceive such joysand that you dare propose that I serve them? What horrors you havejust uttered in my hearing! Cruel man, were you to be miserable forbut two days, you would see these doctrines upon humanity swiftlyobliterated from your heart: it is prosperity blinds and hardensyou: mightily blase you are before the spectacle of the evilswhence you suppose yourself sheltered, and because you hope neverto suffer them, you consider you have the right to inflict them;may happiness never come nigh unto me if it can produce this degreeof corruption! O Just Heaven! not merely to be content to abuse themisfortunate! To drive audacity and ferocity to the point ofincreasing it, of p
