"Yet I confess that I, individually, am not yet exempt from some of the terrestrial attachments. I am still attracted towards some men more than toward others, and philanthropy as preached by our Great Patron— the Saviour of the World—the Teacher of Nirvana and the Law ... has never killed in me either individual preferences of friendship, love—for my next of kin— or the ardent feeling of patriotism for the country—in which I was last materially individualized."