Please visit our flagship Internet service Free-Market. The world's most comprehensive source for information on liberty . Taken literally, the advice is unnecessary and absurd. In the first sense, the doctrine that man ought to follow nature is meaningless.
Man has no power to do anything else.
It is irrational because all human action whatever consists in altering the spontaneous course of nature, and all useful action consists in improving it. Nature impales men, breaks them as if on the wheel, casts them to be devoured by wild beasts, burns them to death, crushes them with stones like the first Christian martyr, starves them with hunger, freezes them with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exhalations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. She mows down those on whose existence hangs the well-being of a whole people, perhaps the prospects of the human race for generations to come, with as little compunction as those whose death is a relief to themselves, or a blessing to those under their noxious influence. Such are Nature's dealings with life. Even when she does not intend to kill, she inflicts the same tortures in apparent wantonness.