“The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, et try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships.”

—  African Spir

Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 44.

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