But it is not so to them.

The religious moralist might well instruct the world, though he knew little of its ways and passions; for the aim of his teaching was to withdraw men from the world.

But the aim of the positive moralist is precisely opposite; it is to keep men in the world.

It is not to teach men to despise this life, but to adore it.

The positions of the two moralists are in fact the exact converses of each other.