Consequently we have no excuses for our existence as wretches, but we are so deeply degraded that we do not see the necessity of a justification.

The majority of people in contemporary society give themselves up to this debauchery without the slightest remorse.

We have no conscience left, except, so to speak, the conscience of public opinion and of the criminal code.

But in this matter neither of these consciences is struck.

There is not a being in society who blushes at it.