I, as a man of culture, do not find any evil in myself, and I am impelled spontaneously towards what seems to me the most noble. If all others had as much culture as myself, they would all, like myself, be incapable of doing an evil act. Then it might be said with truth: you are gods and sons of the Most High.
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Paraphrase by Irving Babbitt: If all men were like himself, Renan declares, it would be appropriate to say of them: Ye are Gods and sons of the most high. | Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), Ch. IV, pp. 133–134.