Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.