ABSTRACT
The most able scientists should be divided into two classes, that is, they should form two separate Academies. The Academy of Moral Sciences should be composed of the most distinguished moralists, theologians, lawyers, poets, painters, sculptors, and musicians. It will be no more extraordinary to see musicians, painters, and sculptors in the Academy appointed to improve sentiments, than it is today to see opticians, clockmakers, and toolmakers in the Academy of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. The Royal Scientific College will certainly be the most important of all social institutions, since it will exercise supreme direction over the general activity of society. The scientists nominated by the Academy of Sentiments and the Academy of Reason to compose the Supreme Scientific College will co-opt the most able lawyers, and will give them the task of developing the general doctrine they produce into a framework of rules.
