At the end of that time he [the man who claims to be too 'independent' to receive prophetic counsel] would be wishing for the society of the negro baboon, or anything at all like the human form. He would hunger and thirst for an association with his fellow being; he would find himself wretched without it, and he would exclaim like Nebuchadnezzar in the bitterness of his soul, 'God is great and good.'