The pleasures of intellectual feeling, and the pleasures of self-
approbation, together with the right cultivation of all our
pleasures, are connected with soundness of understanding.
Soundness of understanding is inconsistent with prejudice: consequently, as
few falsehoods as possible, either speculative or
practical, should be fostered among mankind.
Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry;
consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will
admit, be exempted from restraint.
Soundness of understanding is connected with simplicity of
manners, and leisure for intellectual cultivation: consequently, a
distribution of property extremely unequal, is adverse to the most
desirable state of man.