It's an observation of metastasized hubris [1]. Normally an individual with overweening pride got smote down by the gods with some, but limited, collateral dam

It's an observation of metastasized hubris [1]. Normally an individual with overweening pride got smote down by the gods with some, but limited, collateral damage. But what happens when the whole nation ("the condition of man") forgets Providence and deems herself hubristically self-sufficient ("satiety and arrogance")? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris