EVERYTHING you conceive, everything you contemplate, will be good, great, elevated, sublime, if it accords with "the general and common interest". There is no quality essential to your species apart from that which you demand from all your fellow men to ensure your happiness and theirs . . . . o not ever lose sight of it, or else you will find that your comprehension of the notions of goodness, justice, humanity and virtue grow dim. Say to yourself often, “I am a man, and I have no other truly inalienable natural rights except those of humanity.”