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Chapter Xxvi.(4) on Teleology.

The World As Will and Idea (vol. 3 of 3) · Arthur Schopenhauer — chapter 7 of 44 · ~78 words · public domain

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The universal teleology or design of organised nature relative to the continuance of every existing being, together with the adaptation of organised to unorganised nature, cannot without violence enter into the connection of any philosophical system except that one which makes a will the basis of the existence of every natural being; a will which accordingly expresses its nature and tendency not merely in the actions, but already in the form of the phenomenal organism. In the preceding

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