This hateful world had caught him and transformed him to a machine .
The mysteries of his own bosom were bare to him ; but he could compre hend them only in their immediate relation to the world outside.  This hateful world had caught him and transformed him to a machine .  The discovery he made was, that in the gratification of the egoistic instinct we may so beset our selves as to deal a slaughtering wound upon Self to whatso ever quarter we turn.