Faith Is Not Uprooted By

Society Is Not A Mere Sum Of Individuals. Rather, The System Formed By Their Association Represents A Specific Reality Which Has Its Own Characteristics... The Group Thinks, Feels, And Acts Quite Differently From The Way In Which Its Members Would Were They Isolated. If, Then, We Begin With The Individual, We Shall Be Able To Understand Nothing Of What Takes Place In The Group.

At This Point, An Urgent Question Arises: [...] Is It Our Duty To Seek To Become A Thorough And Complete Human Being, One Quite Sufficient Unto Himself; Or, On The Contrary, To Be Only A Part Of A Whole, The Organ Of An Organism? Briefly, Is The Division Of Labor, At The Same Time That It Is A Law Of Nature, Also A Moral Rule Of Human Conduct; And, If It Has This Latter Character, Why And In What Degree?

It Is Too Great Comfort Which Turns A Man Against Himself. Life Is Most Readily Renounced At The Time And Among The Classes Where It Is Least Harsh.

It Is Not Human Nature Which Can Assign The Variable Limits Necessary To Our Needs. They Are Thus Unlimited So Far As They Depend On The Individual Alone. Irrespective Of Any External Regulatory Force, Our Capacity For Feeling Is In Itself An Insatiable And Bottomless Abyss.

One Cannot Long Remain So Absorbed In Contemplation Of Emptiness Without Being Increasingly Attracted To It. In Vain One Bestows On It The Name Of Infinity; This Does Not Change Its Nature. When One Feels Such Pleasure In Non-existence, One's Inclination Can Be Completely Satisfied Only By Completely Ceasing To Exist.