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SUPPLICATION

Doleful child weeping Dwarfed 'neath the trees, Glancing skyward For consolation In elusive breeze.

Though yet puerile To comprehend why, Feeling awkward He knows what to be Unloved doth imply.

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For man's inhumanness, Man must atone, However wayward 'Til then this child Rests sole, but not alone. -Damian

Continued from Page 19 wherever possible, keep it concealed and even so to master it that it shall only appear as a subordinate, secondary concern of life."

Schopenhauer singles out procreation as the "will's" most debauched celebration of itself and that all avenues to it are similarly polluted including the institution of marriage. He adds: "That in every case of falling in love... what alone is looked to is the production of an individual of a definite nature, is primarily confirmed by the fact that the essential matter is not the reciprocation of love, but possession."

the interests of our oblivious will. Accordingly, the sun rises daily as a function of "will" and our lives are no more than symtoms of the enormous disease which afflicts reality. He declares:

"Finally, and above all, life is evil because life is war. Every were in nature we see strife, competition, conflict, and a suicidal alternation of victory and defeat. Every species fights for the matter, space and time of others."

Germany's pessimistic thinker, like Goethe and other contemporaries admired the Greeks, but more specifically, the fact that Hellenic athletes and militarists refrained from (hetero) sex during games and He argues that procreation is campaigns. According to his symbolic of the moribund quality definition, genius is the ultimate of human existence. In his way mode of will-less knowledge. of thinking, to resist the conKnowledge in excess of that tinuation of animal life is ennecessary for survival is to him a nobling and rescues us from the means. of extricating oneself brutality of universal from "will." This is because. biochemistry. He quotes Celsus noqutilitarian thought both and having said: "Seminis enables encourages emissio est partis animae jacbehavior contrary to that which tura (emission of semen is à parserves the advancement of tial expulsion of the animate)." cosmic development.

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In the Schopenhauer scheme, our lives are not unique conscious events but mere grist to be anonymously ground up in

The concept of doing something for its own sake (l'art, puur l'art) originated in Schopenhauer's era and was

outlined for exampe, in Schiller's essay About Naive and Deliberate Poetry. it implies that an act can only merit any significance if it is not goal oriented. Such an act is the only free and truly creative deed. Some late classics and romantics would have said "divine". because only gods are independent of biological necessity.

Although Schopenhauer appears on the surface to be a prophet of abstinence, he avoids discussing masturbation, homosexuality or other forms of sexual release. Instead, he focuses on heterosex as a perpetuation of evil on the basis of its role in reproduction. This philosophy of Will-Idea has become a milestone in Western philosophy because of its faultless logic and ingenious superstructure. Had it not been for Schopenhauer's helpless, often tragic and archetypal hatred

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