lawless devices
Victor had in retrospect characterized the nature of his cloistered and
obsessive study at Ingolstadt
"unlawful," which he then defined as "not
befitting the human mind," in 1.3.8.
Here, one senses that the emphasis is less on social or antisocial behavior
than on what an individual human being has the right to do: "devices"
implies a means by which actions are performed.
