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What this author is arguing is on the one hand essential; we must understand that we have an established moral nature and teleology that reveals itself to us during our youngest years. On the other hand, the news is tragic, for through an improper education - both morally and emotionally - we have been stripped of our former nature. Us men come into this world with a certain tendency towards virtue. Many of us as children were kind, generous, expressive, and absorbed with the gentle pleasures that Nature provided us; the luminous garden in the neighbor's backyard, the virile bees soaring around the bushes, the great tumultuous clouds that preceded those storms that we knew were inevitable; these were all events that we adored. The tragedy is that these became fleeting accidents we began to ignore. Once our indifference and apathy towards life itself sprung forth, we never once again viewed the flowers outside the same way. Was this decline intentional by Nature? Did she intend for us to lose that child-like fervor for all the goods that she herself provides? I do not believe so. There are many causes, I believe, for this devolution into adulthood, wherein man loses his affection for the minor yet great joys that surround him at all times. Industrialization itself is undoubtedly one of them. As man is thrusted into specialized labor and obligated to engage in work he feels no meaning towards; when he is told to press a button on a machine for eight hours a day; for him to do such work for the majority of his life is a chore that will alone exhaust his spirit and render him unmoved by existence itself. Another cause is the removal of Nature itself that accompanies industrialization, but takes its roots in the cultivation of large cities even without the factory. To be surrounded by ugly buildings is one way to degrade man's appreciation towards all that surrounds him. But even the best art perverts his focus and places it on luxuries, winning the approval of others, and distracts him from the pure grandiosity that Nature provides alone. Nonetheless, one of the great causes for man's devolution is the sexual degeneracy that he engages in; and it is no coincidence that his departure from his child-like innocence takes place at the same time his fall into sexual misconduct occurs. If we are unable to abolish these horrid buildings; if we are incapable of initiating a return to Nature tomorrow through tearing down the factory; one thing is still left in our power, and that is to hold on to this vital power that we have been endowed with. We do this for regeneration, for power, and for some of us, to return to that beautiful taste for the world that we once possessed. I believe that through this mechanism alone, through willing ourselves to dominion over this passion - learning to wield it - that we can rise to a greater height than any change in these other affairs could elevate us. Let us march forward, chaste, and understand that there will only ever be two proper uses of our seminal fluids: one for the procreation of the human race, and two, for the regeneration of our body and soul.