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Show (Eggay on effect, meansand ends, seed and fruit, canno Compengation be severed; for the effect already blooms i the cause, the end pre-exists in the means the fruit in the seed Whilst thus the world will be whole an refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example,-to gratify the senses we sever th pleasure of the senses from the needs o the character. The ingenuity of man ha been dedicated to the solution of one problem,-how to detach the sensual sweet, th sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc. from the moral sweet, the moral deep, th moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cu clean off this upper surface so thin as t leave it bottomless; to get a one end, without an ofher end. The soul says, Eat; th the body would feast. The soul says, The ma and woman shall be one flesh and one soul the body would join the flesh only. Th soul says, Have dominion over all thing to the ends of virtue; the body would hav the power over things to its own ends 1 Digital Image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. Al rights reserved |