Chapter 72 The third part of the old list and the new list fifteen

I have heard pious recluses repeat to their consciences the maxim that, verily, they are without fault or guilt,--though nothing in the world is worse or more sinful. "Let the world be its own world! Don't blame it!" "Let those who will block, and gouge, and cut, and exploit the people do as they please: don't blame it! Thus they will learn to renounce the world." "For your own reasons—you should choke and stifle yourself; for the world's reasons—thus you will learn to renounce the world." O my brethren, break, break the old charts of the pious!Tore up the maxims of these cynics—