Stories for Pleasure and Edification

Immodesty is on the lips of hun-

and unites with the monster of suspi-

to tear humanity apart.
As faithless as it is fearful,
slander hides in the corner,
and kills with invisible daggers.
Ah! flee — flee far from that mortal,
who has only himself as the object of his lo-

— He who seeks only himself
cannot be worthy of humanity.
Flee the dark fanatic,
The original German uses "Schwärmer," a term common in the 18th century to describe religious extremists or those misled by irrational "enthusiasm."
who arms the hands of the Deity with a club,
though the Deity is nothing but love.
The wildness that misleads him into this dream
was never a virtue;
for tell me — if there were virtue without brotherly

what vice would you be able to condemn?
— Oh, tear the laurels from the guilty

of the proud warrior,
the cruel fruits of his conquest,
and that price, won too fortunately through human