this. The following questions are put to the candidate:
- "Are our civil conditions in the world the destinations that seem to be the end of our nature, or the purposes for which man was placed on this earth, or are they not? Do states, civil obligations, popular religion, fulfil the intentions of men who established them? Do secret associations promote instruction and true human happiness, or are they the children of necessity, of the multifarious wants, of unnatural conditions, or the inventions of vain and cunning men?"
- "What civil association, what science do you think to the purpose, and what are not?"
- "Has there ever been any other in the world, is there no other more simple condition, and what do you think of it?"
- "Does it appear possible, after having gone through all the nonentities of our civil constitutions, to recover for once our first simplicity, and get back to this honourable uniformity?"
- "How can one begin this