When Foulon was asked how the starving populace was to live he answered: "Let them eat grass." Afterward, Carlyle says, the mob, maddened with rage, "caught him in the streets of Paris, hanged him, stuck his head upon a pike, filled his mouth with grass, amid shouts as of Tophet from a grass-eating people." What kings and princes gave they received.

This is the voice of nature and conscience: "Behold, sin crouches at the door!" This divine principle also explains man's attitude toward his fellows.
The proverb says man makes his own world.

Each sees what is in himself, not what is outside.

The jaundiced eye yellows all it beholds.

The chameleon takes its color from the bark on which it clings.