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in a new sense of the word, will be as
important for the marriages of the future, as
for aristocratic marriages in early times. One
of Maudsley’s statements is so interesting that
it should be mentioned here. Fathers, he says,
who have directed their whole energy towards
attainment of wealth, have degenerate children;
for this sort of nerve strain undermines
the system as infallibly as alcohol or opium.
If this statement be true, we would add
another point of view to the many already
existent, that show how hostile to life is our
best social order, which aims at power and
gain. It proves how necessary is that
transformation of existence which will make work
and production serve a new end. Each man
should claim to live wholly, broadly, and in a
way worthy of humanity. He should be able
to leave behind him a posterity provided with
all capacities for a similar life. When this
day dawns people will regard, as a terrible
atavism, that expression on the face of a child,
which an artist of the present day has preserved
in a picture of a boy represented as a
future millionaire.
I will mention now from literary sources,
some of Nietzsche’s work on this subject.
Although this author did not base his ideas
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