"Let progress end at once,—man make no step

Beyond the natural man, the better beast,

Using his senses, not the sense of sense."

In man there 's failure, only since he left

The lower and inconscious forms of life.

We called it an advance, the rendering plain

Man's spirit might grow conscious of man's life,

And, by new lore so added to the old,

Take each step higher over the brute's head.

This grew the only life, the pleasure-house,