In the society which he paints for us and in which, as soon as it is a question of moral truths, the majority of people prefer knowing less to trying to justify themselves, where they are tormented without being uneasy, nervous without really being preoccupied, where they only perceive in the act of learning the unpleasant fact of not having known, where each person willingly accuses himself of error rather than having recourse to the means of no longer having to commit it, where indifference alone engenders impartiality and in consequence makes it sterile, where contact with other people is therefore in every sense of the term extremely 'limited' owing to a general absence of curiosity...