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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER III
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The Tolstoyan's will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil.

But the Nietzscheite's will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special.

They stand at the cross-roads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads.

The result is--well, some things are not hard to calculate.

They stand at the cross-roads.
Here I end (thank God) the first and dullest business of this book--the rough review of recent thought.


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