Reality Seems Valueless By Comparison

For A Long Time It Has Been Known That The First Systems Of Representations With Which Men Have Pictured To Themselves The World And Themselves Were Of Religious Origin. There Is No Religion That Is Not A Cosmology At The Same Time That It Is A Speculation Upon Divine Things. If Philosophy And The Sciences Were Born Of Religion, It Is Because Religion Began By Taking The Place Of The Sciences And Philosophy.

Man Is Only A Moral Being Because He Lives In Society, Since Morality Consists In Solidarity With The Group, And Varies According To That Solidarity. Cause All Social Life To Vanish, And Moral Life Would Vanish At The Same Time, Having No Object To Cling To.

Man Cannot Become Attached To Higher Aims And Submit To A Rule If He Sees Nothing Above Him To Which He Belongs. To Free Him From All Social Pressure Is To Abandon Him To Himself And Demoralize Him.

A Monomaniac Is A Sick Person Whose Mentality Is Perfectly Healthy In All Respects But One; He Has A Single Flaw, Clearly Localized. At Times, For Example, He Has An Unreasonable And Absurd Desire To Drink Or Steal Or Use Abusive Language; But All His Other Acts And All His Other Thoughts Are Strictly Correct.

Maniacal Suicide. —this Is Due To Hallucinations Or Delirious Conceptions. The Patient Kills Himself To Escape From An Imaginary Danger Or Disgrace, Or To Obey A Mysterious Order From On High, Etc.