Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
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We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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