Ar-Lamech of Sirap's Songs Rescued from the Deluge

...to examine the source itself. He even humored the Heuchler|hypocrites in his social circle and paid frequent visits to Charlatanen|charlatans or quacks in order to learn how he might one day unmask them. The sight of Laster|vice, which he encountered at such close range, only inspired him further toward Tugend|virtue. For a long time, he wished to play no other role in society and contented himself with being a spectator of Mißbräuche|abuses and Ausschweifungen|excesses or debauchery, without his own soul being infected by them.

Indeed, at times, in order to facilitate his vocation, he was even seen publicly adopting a sort of frivolity and passing himself off as an insignificant and flighty man, so as not to appear suspicious to those he wished to observe at close range. Consequently, nothing was hidden from his eyes, and nothing was kept from him; they assumed he had a dull expression original: "blödes Gesicht"; in this historical context, it refers to a vacant, simple, or unintelligent look intended to disarm others. and was hard of hearing. In this way, he achieved his purpose of catching the secrets of the wicked and the fools by surprise, so as to be justified in one day exposing them before the Tribunal der Vernunft|Tribunal of Reason A central Enlightenment concept where ideas, laws, and behaviors are judged solely by their logical and moral soundness..