He did not distill the essential idea of functionhood: that to each x in the domain there corresponds a unique y in the range.
Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.
It should here be explained that in this form of natural-law theory, there is a distinction between the obligator who puts us under the obligation to do our duty, and the beneficiary of this duty.
