A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
