I am the first man of ability who refused to regard it as guilt. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? “Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Your mind is your only judge of truth—and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube. But those of you who have known a single moment of love for existence and of pride in being its worthy lover, a moment of looking at this earth and letting your glance be its sanction, have known the state of being a man, and I—I am only the man who knew that that state is not to be betrayed. A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you’re being stoned. “You blank it out and cling to your hypocrisy of ‘faith’ in order to blank out the knowledge that the looters have a stranglehold upon you, which consists of your moral code—that the looters are the final and consistent practitioners of the morality you’re half-obeying, half-evading—that they practice it the only way it can be practiced: by turning the earth into a sacrificial furnace—that your morality forbids you to oppose them in the only way they can be opposed: by refusing to become a sacrificial animal and proudly asserting your right to exist—that in order to fight them to the finish and with full rectitude, it is your morality that you have to reject. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice, you must want to live, you must love it, you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you—you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body, It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal, but death by slow torture. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? “The mystics of both schools, who preach the creed of sacrifice, are germs that attack you through a single sore: your fear of relying on your mind. Whatever you do don’t take this down. The law of causality does not permit you to eat your cake before you have it. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”. But the history of man has been a struggle to deny and to destroy his mind. The ego you seek, that essential ‘you’ which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your ‘feeling.’ Then you drag yourself through a self-made night, in a desperate quest for a nameless fire, moved by some fading vision of a dawn you had seen and lost. “You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. “Accept the fact that the achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness—not pain or mindless self-indulgence—is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. “Who pays for the orgy? When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil. You cannot achieve it so long as you live, but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death. Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. An inventor is a man who asks ‘Why?’ of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. : Harvard University Press, 1936), p. 344.Criticism.


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