So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here elow. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.[Ainsi est-il du cœur de l’homme. Le besoin de faire œuvre qui dure, qui lui survive, est le signe de sa supériorité sur tout ce qui vit ici-bas. C’est ce qui a fondé sa domination, et c’est ce qui la justifie dans le monde entier.]
Source:(Charles Scribner's Sons, ed. 1918), Part III. The Secret of the Island, Chapter XV, Page 445
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