In effect, to translate man back again into nature; to master the many vain and visionary interpretations and subordinate meanings which have hitherto been scratched and daubed over the eternal original text, to bring it about that man shall henceforth stand before man as he now, hardened by the discipline of science, stands before the forms of nature, with fearless Oedipus eyes, and stopped Ulysses ears, deaf to the enticements of old metaphysical bird catchers, who have piped to him far too long