ABSTRACT
The evils which knowledge spawns decrease as the diffusion of knowledge increases, and the benefits of this are direct. It is not true that the sciences have always damaged mankind, and if they have it was due to the inevitable evil of men. The multiplication of human kind on the face of the earth introduced war, the cruder arts, the first laws, that were momentary pacts born of necessity and perishing with it. This was the first philosophy of men, containing few elements of justice, because their apathy and lack of wisdom saved them from error. If blind ignorance is less fatal than partial and confused knowledge, then the evils of he former add to those of the inevitable errors from one who has a restricted vision of what constitutes the truth, then an enlightened man is a very precious gift that a sovereign gives to its nation and to itself, making him the depositary and custodian of sacred laws.
