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heartless play of masculine or feminine desire for
conquest, the selfish soulless claims of the
senses, from those of love, the more does the
conception of morality become equivalent to
the feeling of responsibility towards the new
generation.
The gratification of natural impulses, which
act contrary to the real profound intention
of nature, is what destroys individuals and
peoples. But as has been said, these devastations
cannot be successfully restrained by the
extermination of man’s material nature.
It is a favourable symptom when a poet
opposes the mastery of material nature, apart
from the feeling of responsibility. But it is
harmful when this sensuousness is made, as
Tolstoi does, equivalent to the conception of
love. Love must not be debased to simple
sensuousness, nor must it be etherealised to
a simple spiritual quality, if the human race
is to be freed from the debasing mastery of
impulse. This happens, as I have often shown
before, and in an earlier part of this work
as well, by the elevation of sensuousness to
love. I mean by this that the spiritual unity
of beings, the indulgence of tenderness, the
sympathy of souls, the community of work,
and the happiness of comradeship, will be as
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