Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself.
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend__nd ev'ry foe.
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Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend__nd ev'ry foe.
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