Strong Drink Stupefies A Man And Makes

Unaware Of The Absurdity Of It, We Introduce Our Own Petty Household Rules Into The Economy Of The Universe For Which The Life Of Generations, Peoples, Of Entire Planets, Has No Importance In Relation To The General Development.

I Am Truly Horrified By Modern Man. Such Absence Of Feeling, Such Narrowness Of Outlook, Such Lack Of Passion And Information, Such Feebleness Of Thought.

If Nations Always Moved From One Set Of Furnished Rooms To Another -- And Always Into A Better Set -- Things Might Be Easier, But The Trouble Is That There Is No One To Prepare The New Rooms. The Future Is Worse Than The Ocean -- There Is Nothing There. It Will Be What Men And Circumstances Make It.

Modern Western Thought Will Pass Into History And Be Incorporated In It, Will Have Its Influence And Its Place, Just As Our Body Will Pass Into The Composition Of Grass, Of Sheep, Of Cutlets, And Of Men.

Strong Drink Stupefies A Man And Makes It Possible For Him To Forget; It Gives Him An Artificial Cheeriness, An Artificial Excitement; And The Pleasure Of This State Is Increased By The Low Level Of Civilization And The Narrow Empty Life To Which These Men Are Confined.