Excerpt from The Will in Ethics

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The particular will and the Universal will and their mutual relations to each other is the most absorbing and important theme that the intellect of man can dwell upon.

In it are hidden the mysteries of life, good and evil, happiness and misery. Once understand the true relations of the particular will to the Universal, and you hold in your hand the key to all things. This is the theme of the hook, in which we seek to discover first what the will is, how we may know the Universal will as distinguished from the particular will, and what the rule or canon of their relation to each other; for the Universal will is and must berit and good altogether, and whether a particular will be good must depend upon its relation to the Universal will, upon whether it observes the rule of their relation. A good will must be a will harmonious, at one, with the Universal will; and this harmony of the particular will with the Universal will has two aspects, one the internal side of feeling, the condition of the soul; the other the external side of conduct, the expression of that feeling in outward acts.

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