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Bureaucracy

CHAPTER VIII
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"Come, don't interrupt, yourself." Phellion [resuming].

"-- and he hath said that he created it immortal; in other words, the soul can never die.
"Quest .-- What are the uses of the soul?
"Ans .-- To comprehend, to will, to remember; these constitute understanding, volition, memory.
"Quest .-- What are the uses of the understanding?
"Ans .-- To know.

It is the eye of the soul." Fleury.

"And the soul is the eye of what ?" Phellion [continuing].

"Quest .-- What ought the understanding to know?
"Ans .-- Truth.
"Quest .-- Why does man possess volition?
"Ans .-- To love good and hate evil.
"Quest .-- What is good?
"Ans .-- That which makes us happy." Vimeux.


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