What A Pathetic Creature Is Man! His

Christianity Is The Religion Of Melancholy And Hypochondria. Islam, On The Other Hand, Promotes Apathy, And Judaism Instills Its Adherents With A Certain Choleric Vehemence, The Heathen Greeks May Well Be Called Happy Optimists.

This Searching And Doubting And Vacillating Where Nothing Is Clear But The Arrogance Of Quest. I, Too, Had Such Noble Ideas When I Was Still A Boy.

In Early Times, Before The Floods Swept Across The World, There Was Life, Albeit Odd, As One Can See From The Fossils Of Mammoth Bones, And There Was The Regime Of Prince Metternich.

The Thing That Pleases Is Not Always Good And, Helas, The Good Thing Does Not Always Please.

Praised Be The Good Willing Women Who Understand And Take Part In The Fun--the Body Is An Exacting Beater, And Even The Heart Is Made Of Flesh.