innocent mean at which they may be satisfied, the Aristotelianism of morals; or even morality as the enjoyment of the emotions in a voluntary attenuation and spiritualization by the symbolism of art, perhaps as music, or as love of God, and of mankind for God’s sake⁠—for in religion the passions are once more enfranchised, provided that⁠ ⁠… ; or, finally, even the complaisant and wanton surrender to the emotions, as has been taught by Hafis and Goethe, the bold letting-go of the reins, the spiritual and corporeal

licentia morum in the exceptional cases of wise old codgers and drunkards, with whom it “no longer has much danger.”⁠—This also for the chapter: “Morals as Timidity.”