It Is Of Great Advantage That Man

The People Who Are Abroad Are All Those That Have No Religion, Neither One Based On Speculation Nor One Received By Tradition. Such Are The Extreme Turks That Wander About In The North, The Kushites Who Live In The South, And Those In Our Country Who Are Like These. I Consider These As Irrational Beings, And Not As Human Beings; They Are Below Mankind, But Above Monkeys, Since They Have The Form And Shape Of Man, And A Mental Faculty Above That Of The Monkey.

There Is No Difference Between The Worry Of A Human Mother And An Animal Mother For Their Offspring. A Mother's Love Does Not Derive From The Intellect But From The Emotions, In Animals Just As In Humans.

Astrology Is A Sickness, Not A Science ... It Is A Tree Under The Shade Of Which All Sorts Of Superstitions Thrive.

The Second Class Of Evils Comprises Such Evils As People Cause To Each Other, When, E.g. , Some Of Them Use Their Strength Against Others. These Evils Are More Numerous Than Those Of The First Kind... They Likewise Originate In Ourselves, Though The Sufferer Himself Cannot Avert Them.

The Error Of The Ignorant Goes So Far As To Say That God's Power Is Insufficient, Because He Has Given To This Universe The Properties Which They Imagine Cause These Great Evils, And Which Do Not Help All Evil-disposed Persons To Obtain The Evil Which They Seek, And To Bring Their Evil Souls To The Aim Of Their Desires, Though These, As We Have Shown, Are Really Without Limit.