epicureanize

Along with it came the rapid growth of wealth, and of the arts which minister to wealth, whether by feeding or by pampering it: and these naturally tend to enervate and epicureanize men's minds, to “ incarnate and imbrute" the soul, “till she quite loses The divine property of her first being," to lower the dignity of thought, and to relax the severe purity of feeling; so that people learn to account happiness the one legitimate object of all aim, and that too a happiness derived from nothing higher than the temperate harmless indulgence of our pleasurable appetites.