Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in progress, and their effects distant.


Preface of M. Quetelet - A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)


Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in...

Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in...

Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in...

Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in...