HUMAN NATURE


How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime,
his birth a penalty, his life a labor, and death a necesity.

Cardinal vices in Buddist sheme - Lust, Indolence (Pride),
Anger, and Avarice.

Four cardinal virtues: Chastity, Generosity, Gentleness, and Humility

Chines vitues: Sympaty, Justice, Propriety, Wisdom and Sincerity.

The virtues of Christianity are teological, not cardinal: Faith, Love,
and hope.

Disposition toward others: Envy and Sympaty

Extravagance springs from a brutish limitation to the present movement,
in comparasion with which the future, exsiting as it does only in thought, 
is as nothing

Illusion that sensual pleasures poses a positive and real value

Koran declares that all spendthrifts to be "brothers of satan"

stupid mass of mankind

Man is at bottom a savage, horible beast. We know it only in the
bussines of tamming and restraining him which we call civilization. 
Hence it is that we are terrified if now and them his nature breaks out.
But it is unecessary to wait for anarchy in order to gain enligtement 
on this subject. A hundred records, old and new, produce the convivtion
that in his unrelenting cruelty man is in no way inferior to the tiger and
the hyena.

Details of this character belong, indeed, to the black pages in the 
criminal record of humanity.

No animal ever tourments another for the mere purpose of tormeting,
but man does it, and it is this constitues the diabolic feature in his 
character which is so more worst than the merely animal.

animales are instinctivly afraid of the sight, or even tha track of man.

delight in misfortune of others wich remain the worst trait of human
nature.

if envy is aroused only by wealth, rank, and power.

indulge in a bitter and inrenconsiliable hatred of the people who poses
those priviledges, ans hence the desire  is to take vengence of him.

