It may sound fine in the mouth of a declaimer when he talks of subduing our appetites , of teaching every sense to be content with a bare sufficiency , and of supplying only the wants of nature ;

高谈阔论者讲到我们抑制我们的欲望，只有最少的东西来满足我们的感官，只用大自然所缺乏的东西来供给它们，这听起来好像很美妙；