Status Updates From On Some of Life's Ideals: O...

found an old copy at an antique shop and it’s pretty interesting so far

Truly, all we know of good and duty proceeds from nature; but nonetheless so all we know of evil. Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, - a moral multiverse, as one might call it, and not a moral universe.

My task, let me say now, is practically narrow, and my words are to deal only with that metaphysical tedium vitae [life weariness] which is peculiar to reflecting men. Most of you are devoted, for good or ill, to the reflective life. ... But to the diseases which reflection breeds, still further reflection can oppose effective remedies; and it is of the melancholy and Weltschmerz [...] ... (pp. 40-41)