gina, you're beginning to sound like the tower of Babel!
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> He wanted to make himself his own centre and
> independent of my help. He withdrew himself from my rule; and, on his
> making
> himself equal to me by the desire of finding his happiness in himself, I
> abandoned him to himself. And setting in revolt the creatures that were
> subject to him, I made them his enemies; so that man is now become like
> the
> brutes and so estranged from me that there scarce remains to him a dim
> vision of his Author. So far has all his knowledge been extinguished or
> disturbed! The senses, independent of reason, and often the masters of
> reason, have led him into pursuit of pleasure. All creatures either
> torment
> or tempt him, and domineer over him, either subduing him by their
> strength,
> or fascinating him by their charms, a tyranny more awful and more
> imperious.
>
> "Such is the state in which men now are. There remains to them some
feeble
> instinct of the happiness of their former state; and they are plunged in
> the
> evils of their blindness and their lust, which have become their second
> nature. "From this principle which I disclose to you, you can recognize
> the
> cause of those contradictions which have astonished all men and have
> divided
> them into parties holding so different views. Observe, now, all the
> feelings
> of greatness and glory which the experience of so many woes cannot
stifle,
> and see if the cause of them must not be in another nature.
>
> For ****t-Royal to-morrow (Prosopopaea).--"It is in vain, O men, that you
> seek within yourselves the remedy for your ills. All your light can only
> reach the knowledge that not in yourselves will you find truth or good.
> The
> philosophers have promised you that, and you have been unable to do it.
> They
> neither know what is your true good, nor what is your true state. How
> could
> they have given remedies for your ills, when they did not even know
them?
> Your chief maladies are pride, which takes you away
>
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