The following is a quote from chapter eight of George MacDonald's, The Princess and Curdie:
Now listen. Since it is always what they DO, whether in their minds or their bodies, that makes men go down to be less than men, that is, beasts, the change always comes first in their hands- and first of all in the inside hands, to which the outside ones are but as the gloves. They do not know it of course; for a beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows it. To such a person there is in general no insult like the truth. He cannot endure it, not becuase he is growing a beast, but because he is ceasing to be a man.
His observations are even more relevant today!
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