Author of quotes: Theodore Dreiser. Page 25

People without life experience is a blade of grass swept by the raging winds in the universe... Our civilization is still in the middle of the way. We're not animals, because their actions are guided not by only one instinct, but still not quite human, because we are guided not only by the voice of reason. The tiger does not respond to actions. We see that nature has given it all to life, it obeys the natural instincts and unconsciously find protection. And we see that people far away from the lair in the jungle, his instincts dulled with the emergence of their own will, but the will is still not so developed in him that would take the place of instinct and to properly supervise his actions. Man becomes too wise to listen to the voice of the instincts and desires, but he is still too weak, that would always defeat them. While he was a beast, the forces of nature attracted him, but he is still quite learned how to subdue them. While in this transition state, the person is not guided by blind instincts and does not act in harmony with nature, but he is still not able on their own wise to create this harmony. That is why man is like the wind blade of grass: the power of gusts of passion he does so or otherwise under the influence of the will, the instinct, making mistakes, correcting their mistakes, falling and again rising; he is a being whose actions are impossible to foresee. We can only console ourselves with the thought that evolution will never stop, that the ideal is the beacon who can't go out. People will not always fluctuate between good and evil. When the strife between his own will and instinct will come to an end when deep understanding of life will allow the first of these forces finally take the place of the second man will cease to be unstable. Arrow mind firmly without hesitation will be fixed on the distant pole of truth.