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Now what would the the doctrine that that which is admirable in itself is a quality of feeling, come to if taken in all its purity and carried to its furthest extreme, - which should be the extreme of admirableness?
It would amount to saying that the one ultimately admirable object is the unrestrained gratification of a desire may be.
Now that is too shocking.
It would be the doctrine that all the higher modes of consciousness with which we are acquainted in ourselves, such as love and reason, are good only so far as they subserve the lowest of all modes to consciousness.
It would be the doctrine that this vast universe of Nature which