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Is Life Worth Living?

CHAPTER IX
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What shall we say of him, then, when he applies the argument in his own way?
We can say simply this--that his mind for the time being is in a state of such confusion, that he is incapable really of clearly meaning anything.

What his position logically must be--what, on other occasions, he clearly avows it to be--is plain enough.

It is essentially that of a man confronted by one Incomprehensible, not confronted by two.

But, looked at in certain ways, or rather looked _from_ in certain ways, this position seems to stagger him.

The problem of existence reels and grows dim before him, and he fancies that he detects the presence of two Incomprehensibles, when he has really, in his state of mental insobriety, only seen one Incomprehensible double.


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