The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.
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