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His voice was firm and resolute, and his face assumed an expression of importance and sternness. He stood in the centre of the room, his hand with outstretched fingers uplifted, and spoke as though he were reading: "Men are base because they strive for satiety. The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.
Robert slipped away and strolled out into the garden in the fast-gathering darkness. His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-contentedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach to him.
And the self-contentedness of the spirit also turns man into animal." Again he started as though all his veins and muscles were suddenly strained, and again he began to run about the room in seething agitation. "A self-contented man is the hardened swelling on the breast of society. He is my sworn enemy.
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