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"
Both
sides
agreed
that
morality
demands
the
surrender
of
your
self
interest
and
of
your
mind
,
that
the
moral
and
the
practical
are
opposites
,
that
morality
is
not
the
province
of
reason
,
but
the
province
of
faith
and
force
.
Both
sides
agreed
that
no
rational
morality
is
possible
,
that
there
is
no
right
or
wrong
in
reason
—
that
in
reason
there
’
s
no
reason
to
be
moral
.
"
Whatever
else
they
fought
about
,
it
was
against
man
’
s
mind
that
all
your
moralists
have
stood
united
.
It
was
man
’
s
mind
that
all
their
schemes
and
systems
were
intended
to
despoil
and
destroy
.
Now
choose
to
perish
or
to
learn
that
the
anti
-
mind
is
the
anti
-
life
.
"
Man
’
s
mind
is
his
basic
tool
of
survival
.
Life
is
given
to
him
,
survival
is
not
.
His
body
is
given
to
him
,
its
sustenance
is
not
.
His
mind
is
given
to
him
,
its
content
is
not
.
To
remain
alive
,
he
must
act
,
and
before
he
can
act
he
must
know
the
nature
and
purpose
of
his
action
.
He
cannot
obtain
his
food
without
a
knowledge
of
food
and
of
the
way
to
obtain
it
.
He
cannot
dig
a
ditch
—
or
build
a
cyclotron
—
without
a
knowledge
of
his
aim
and
of
the
means
to
achieve
it
.
To
remain
alive
,
he
must
think
.
"
But
to
think
is
an
act
of
choice
.
The
key
to
what
you
so
recklessly
call
‘
human
nature
,
’
the
open
secret
you
live
with
,
yet
dread
to
name
,
is
the
fact
that
man
is
a
being
of
volitional
consciousness
.
Reason
does
not
work
automatically
;
thinking
is
not
a
mechanical
process
;
the
connections
of
logic
are
not
made
by
instinct
.
The
function
of
your
stomach
,
lungs
or
heart
is
automatic
;
the
function
of
your
mind
is
not
.
In
any
hour
and
issue
of
your
life
,
you
are
free
to
think
or
to
evade
that
effort
.
But
you
are
not
free
to
escape
from
your
nature
,
from
the
fact
that
reason
is
your
means
of
survival
—
so
that
for
you
,
who
are
a
human
being
,
the
question
‘
to
be
or
not
to
be
’
is
the
question
‘
to
think
or
not
to
think
.
’
"
A
being
of
volitional
consciousness
has
no
automatic
course
of
behavior
.
He
needs
a
code
of
values
to
guide
his
actions
.
‘
Value
’
is
that
which
one
acts
to
gain
and
keep
,
‘
virtue
’
is
the
action
by
which
one
gains
and
keeps
it
.
‘
Value
’
presupposes
an
answer
to
the
question
:
of
value
to
whom
and
for
what
?
‘
Value
’
presupposes
a
standard
,
a
purpose
and
the
necessity
of
action
in
the
face
of
an
alternative
.
Where
there
are
no
alternatives
,
no
values
are
possible
.
"
There
is
only
one
fundamental
alternative
in
the
universe
:
existence
or
non
-
existence
—
and
it
pertains
to
a
single
class
of
entities
:
to
living
organisms
.
The
existence
of
inanimate
matter
is
unconditional
,
the
existence
of
life
is
not
:
it
depends
on
a
specific
course
of
action
.
Matter
is
indestructible
,
it
changes
its
forms
,
but
it
cannot
cease
to
exist
.
It
is
only
a
living
organism
that
faces
a
constant
alternative
:
the
issue
of
life
or
death
.
Life
is
a
process
of
self
-
sustaining
and
self
-
generated
action
.
If
an
organism
fails
in
that
action
,
it
dies
;
its
chemical
elements
remain
,
but
its
life
goes
out
of
existence
.
It
is
only
the
concept
of
‘
Life
’
that
makes
the
concept
of
‘
Value
’
possible
.
It
is
only
to
a
living
entity
that
things
can
be
good
or
evil
.
"
A
plant
must
feed
itself
in
order
to
live
;
the
sunlight
,
the
water
,
the
chemicals
it
needs
are
the
values
its
nature
has
set
it
to
pursue
;
its
life
is
the
standard
of
value
directing
its
actions
.
But
a
plant
has
no
choice
of
action
;
there
are
alternatives
in
the
conditions
it
encounters
,
but
there
is
no
alternative
in
its
function
:
it
acts
automatically
to
further
its
life
,
it
cannot
act
for
its
own
destruction
.
"
An
animal
is
equipped
for
sustaining
its
life
;
its
senses
provide
it
with
an
automatic
code
of
action
,
an
automatic
knowledge
of
what
is
good
for
it
or
evil
.
It
has
no
power
to
extend
its
knowledge
or
to
evade
it
.
In
conditions
where
its
knowledge
proves
inadequate
,
it
dies
.
But
so
long
as
it
lives
,
it
acts
on
its
knowledge
,
with
automatic
safety
and
no
power
of
choice
,
it
is
unable
to
ignore
its
own
good
,
unable
to
decide
to
choose
the
evil
and
act
as
its
own
destroyer
.
