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more important than all other ends of human life, and is therefore quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues: it. That which is decided by it is nothing less than the composition of the react geiveration The dramateis persones who shall appear when we are withdrawn are here determined, botix as regards their existence and their nature, by these frivolous affairs. ds tho being, the existentia, of these future persons is absolutely conditioned by our sexual impulse generally, so their nature, essentia, is determined by the individual selection in its stisfaction, i.e. by sexual love, and is in every respect irrevocably fixed by this. This is the key of the problem * * *
That which pre:ents itself in the individual consciousness as sexual impulse in general, iritha out being directed towards a definite individual of the other sex, is in itself, and apart from the phenomenon, simply the will-to live But what appears in consciousness as a sexual impulse directed to a definite individual is in itelf the will-to-live as a definitely determied individual. Now in this case the sexu 1 impulse. athough in itself a subjective need knows how to assume very skillfully the mask of an objec. tive admiration, and thus to deceire our consca ousness; for nature requires this stratagem to attain its ends But yet that in every case of falling in love, however objective and sublime this admiration may eppur, what alone is looked to is the production of an individual of
