The Life of Reason
The Life of Reason
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[Sidenote: Its indirect attainment by reproduction. ] Reproduction seems, from the will's point of view, a marvellousexpedient involving a curious mixture of failure and success. Theindividual, who alone is the seat and principle of will, is therebysacrificed, so that reproduction is no response to his original hopesand aspirations; yet in a double way he is enticed and persuaded to bealmost satisfied: first, in that so like a counterfeit of himselfactually survives, a creature to which all his... ideal interests may betransmitted; and secondly, because a new and as it were a rival aim isnow insinuated into his spirit. For the impulse toward reproduction hasnow become no less powerful, even if less constant, than the impulsetoward nutrition; in other words, the will to live finds itself in theuncongenial yet inevitable company of the will to have an heir. Reproduction thus partly entertains the desire to be immortal by givingit a vicarious fulfilment, and partly cancels it by adding an impulseand joy which, when you think of it, accepts mortality.
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[Sidenote: Its indirect attainment by reproduction. ] Reproduction seems, from the will's point of view, a marvellousexpedient involving a curious mixture of failure and success. Theindividual, who alone is the seat and principle of will, is therebysacrificed, so that reproduction is no response to his original hopesand aspirations; yet in a double way he is enticed and persuaded to bealmost satisfied: first, in that so like a counterfeit of himselfactually survives, a creature to which all his... ideal interests may betransmitted; and secondly, because a new and as it were a rival aim isnow insinuated into his spirit. For the impulse toward reproduction hasnow become no less powerful, even if less constant, than the impulsetoward nutrition; in other words, the will to live finds itself in theuncongenial yet inevitable company of the will to have an heir. Reproduction thus partly entertains the desire to be immortal by givingit a vicarious fulfilment, and partly cancels it by adding an impulseand joy which, when you think of it, accepts mortality.
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