spiritlessness, n.All

Spiritlessness (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no anxiety because it is too happy, too content, too spiritless for it — the stagnation of spirit and the caricature of ideality.

Spiritlessness (n.) runs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on in Christian paganism like writing in ancient manuscripts without punctuation, one word after another: a sum of rational creatures turned into perpetual meaningless muttering.

Spiritlessness (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠own the whole content of spirit — but as ghosts, gibberish and slogans; it may possess the truth, but as rumor and old wives' tales.

Spiritlessness (n.) feels ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠free of the God-fearing man's anxieties, but lives in dread of living and of dying, which wakes the moment anything shakes it out of its torpor.

Spiritlessness (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠say exactly what the richest spirit has said — only not by virtue of spirit; it makes man a talking machine that can recite a philosophy, a creed or a political recitative by rote.