 Others, once strong voices for decadence, abandoned the movement altogether.Joris-Karl Huysmans grew to consider "Against Nature" as the starting point on his journey into Roman Catholic symbolist work and the acceptance of hope.Anatole Baju, once the self-appointed school-master of French decadence, came to think of the movement as naive and half-hearted, willing to tinker and play with social realities, but not to utterly destroy them.