And human life is in no wise different, though you feel it is and think that you reason why it is. "You know you only mean that in relation to human life, for of the flesh and the fowl and the fish you destroy as much as I or any other man. "But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life." He shrugged his shoulders. Don't you see? And what have you to say?” He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea- water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. To himself only was he of value, and to show how fictitious even this value was, being dead he is unconscious that he has lost himself. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds or rubies. “Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.
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