We meet with nothing, in our researches into the human mind, that appears more surprising to us, than the inconsistencies which abound therein; when we behold a mind, created for the noblest purposes and capable of the most refined enjoyments, exertin...
We meet with nothing, in our researches into the human mind, that appears more surprising to us, than the inconsistencies which abound therein; when we behold a mind, created for the noblest purposes and capable of the most refined enjoyments, exerting itself for the good of mankind in general, or its own expansion, it seems to us following its original intention; but when, instead of continually doing this, there exists in the same mind a taste for the grossest pleasures, and a capacity for the meanest