Higher Laws
r be whe worms which, even in
life and hdraw from
it, but never cs nature. I fear t it may enjoy a certain
s o not pure. ther day
I picked up te and sound teeth and
tusks, th and vigor
distinct from tual. ture succeeded by other means
temperance and purity. quot;t in we
beasts,quot; says Mencius, quot;is a the common
very soon; superior men preserve it carefully.quot; ho
kno of life if ained to purity?
If I kneeacy I o seek
;A command over our passions, and over ternal
senses of ts, are declared by to be
indispensable in tion to God.quot; Yet t
can for time pervade and control every member and function of
transmute sensuality
into purity and devotion. tive energy, which, when we are
loose, dissipates and makes us unclean,
invigorates and inspires us. City is the flowering of man; and
w are called Genius,
various fruits once to God whe
cy is open. By turns our purity inspires and our
impurity casts us dohe
animal is dying out in he divine being
establis has cause for shame on
account of tisure to which he is allied. I
fear t he
divine allied to beasts, tures of appetite, and t, to
some extent, our very life is our disgrace.--
quot;h due place assigned
to s and disafforested his mind!
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Can use t, ,
And is not ass o a