David Given Schwarm

The new morality resolves itself into this: You are wrong if you do think you do not feel like doing, and you are right if you do something you feel like doing. Such morality is based not only on “fastidiousness” but “facetiousness.” The standard of morality then becomes the individual feeling of what is beautiful…

Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there, it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.