Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check? - Friedrich Schiller

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

From the fields and from the vineyards
Came no fruits to deck the feats,
Only flesh of blood-stained victims
Smouldered on the altar-fires,
And whe'er the grieving goddess
Turns her melancholy gaze,
Sunk in vilest degradation,
Man his loathsomeness displays.

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