To glorify the worship of images (my great, my one, my primitive
passion). To glorify vagabondage and what may be called bohemianism.
Worship of sensation, multiplied and expressing itself in music. Refer
this to Liszt.
Of the need of beating women.
One can chastise what one loves. Thus with children.
But that implies the misery of scorning what one loves.
Of cuckoldom and of cuckolds. The misery of the cuckold. It springs
from his pride, from a false conception of honor and of happiness, and
from a love foolishly turned from God to be attributed to creatures. It
is ever the worshipping animal deluded with its idol.