“The moral duty of man consists in imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. That seeing as we daily do the goodness of God to all men, it is an example calling upon all men to practise the same towards each other; and, consequently, that every thing of persecution and revenge between man and man, and every thing of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty.”
Recapitulation
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 1.

Section II, p. 6
Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882), Chapter I. The Science of Justice.

Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
Source: Paradoxes of Faith (1987), Ch. II. "Christianity", p. 24

As quoted in German Thought, From The Seven Years' War To Goethe's Death : Six Lectures (1880) by Karl Hillebrand, p. 207

Letter to Thomas Law (13 June 1814)
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