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52 The Century of the Child
of puritj^ but the concrete commandment of
chastity in letters of fire. So they will keep
their health, their attractiveness, their guile-
lessness, for the being they are to love; for
the children who from this love will receive
their life.
The impulse to preserve the species, it is
true, makes human beings low, small, or
laughable; as poets like Maupassant, Tolstoi,
and others have depicted from quite different
points of view; but it only does so when the
impulse appears without relation to the end
given it in nature, or when this end is attained
without consideration for the production of
an offspring qualified to live. The kind of
love which disturbs life is that which dimin-
ishes the value of an individual as a creator
of life. This type of love really degrades
human beings, is immoral from the stand-
point of the modern view, which wills life to
be, but above all, wills the progress of life to
ever higher forms.
Young people must therefore learn to
reverence their future duties. These they al-
together miss, if they squander their spiritual
and bodily obligations, in unions formed and
dissolved thoughtlessly, without any intention
of fidelity, without the worth of responsibility.
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