The race has since become moderate.

It has reduced, sometimes even done away with, its instincts of carnage and rape, but it has replaced them by the monomania of business, the passion for lucre.

It has done worse.

It has sunk to such a state of abjectness as to be attracted by the doings of the lowest of the low.

The aristocracy disguises itself as a mountebank, puts on tights and spangles, gives public trapeze performances, jumps through hoops, and does weight-lifting stunts in the trampled tan-bark ring! "The clergy, then a good example--if we except a few convents ravaged by frenzied Satanism and lechery--launched itself into superhuman transports and attained God.