If now the modern world

Were taken to reward the good,

It would not suffice

Nor would it be possible with it

To punish the evil so long.

This world, great as it is,

Not sufficing for rewards,

As well as for punishments;

From the time of old

There has been nothing else

But bustle and excitement,

And that's the whole issue.

Always occupied with rewards

And punishments, what leisure

Have men had to rest

In the instincts of the nature

With which they are endowed in full?

But when men begin to honour both

And long for them with partiality,

How great is the deception

Practised on the worldly conditions

By dividing them into the ends of Extreme!

And not only when a performance

Of them is once and suddenly over,

Do they not have done with them,

But they prepare themselves

As with fasting to describe them,

They seem to kneel reverently

When men bring them forward

And they go through them

With excitement of a musical show. . .

And then what can be done to remedy

The evil within the human behaviour?