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ört zug. In the preceding chapter it was called to mind that the (Platonic ) Ideas of the different grades of beings, which are the adequate objectification of the will-to-live, exhibit them. selves in the knowledge of the individual, which is bound to the form of time, as the Species, i. e., as the successive individuals of one kind connected by the bond of generation, and that therefore the species is the Idea broken up in time. Accordingly the true nature of every living thing lies primarily in its species: get the species again has its existence only in the individuals. Now, although the will only attains to self-consciousness in the individual, thus knows itself immediately only as the in dividual, yet the deep-seated consciousness that it is really the species ja, which his true 119. ture objectifies itself appears in the fact that for the individual the concerns of the species as such, thus the relations of the ser's, the production and nourishment of the offspring, are of incomparably greater importance and consequ. ence than ever ything else. * * * *
In the supplements to the second book the will was compared to the root, and the intellect to the crown of the tree; and this is the case inwardly or psychologically. But outwardly or physiologically the genitals are the root and the head the crown The nourishing part is certainly not the genitals, but the villi of the intestines yet not the latter but the former are the root; because through them the idividual is connected with the species in which
