For this were a confusion of corruptive and seminal production, and a frustration of that seminal power committed to animals at the Creation.
Which is so far from being verified of animals in their corruptive mutations into Plants, that they maintain not this similitude in their nearer translation into animals.
Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.
Now just as a painful evil is that which is contrary to the will, so a corruptive evil is that which is contrary to nature: and this is the evil of nature.
Therefore love is a wounding and corruptive passion.
Further, fervor denotes a certain excess of heat; which excess has a corruptive effect.
Separation from things hurtful andcorruptive is desired, in so far as they destroy the unity which is due.
These presently take wings, and fly away, so that, falling into the corruptive and destructive fashions of the times, their parents have only been heaping up riches; not knowing who were to gather them.
It sets us often unquestionably above many of the corruptive opinions and customs in the midst of which we live.
If these are indelicate, or unchaste, or hold out false and corruptive ideas, as has been shewn to be the case with a variety of songs, then singing may from an innocent become a vicious amusement.
Thus many of the corruptive opinions, fashions, and amusements of the world have charmed them.
Knowledge also would be useful in taking off, to a certain degree, the corruptive effects of this spirit, for it would prevent it by the more liberal notions it would introduce, from leaving the whole of its dregs of pollution upon the mind.
For what is the use of keeping the mind in a state of spiritual purity by means of prohibitions, or by attempting to shut it out from the knowledge of corruptive amusements, if it be afterwards to be rendered impure by the love of money?
She will drive you, without mercy, through all hercorruptive customs, and through all her chameleon changes, and this against your judgment and against your will.
Prohibited the attainments of music and dancing, and many of the corruptive amusements of the world, they have ample time for the improvement of the understanding.
By accustoming you to be pleased with ridiculous and corruptive objects, and silly and corruptive changes, she confines your relish to worthless things.
