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MANUAL LABOR

denial and love. Reason opens up to man the only possible path to happiness, and feeling directs man along this path.

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If the thoughts which I have tried to present before you seem to you obscure, do not judge them too severely. I hope that sometime you will read their development in a clearer and simpler form. I only wanted to give you an idea of my views of life.

1889.