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and,
14 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
where no one suspectsthem,like the more celebrated "metaphysical
which
requirements": one must also above all givethe finishing
stroke to that other and more portentous atomism
Christianity has taught best and longestțhe soulatomism.
Let it be permittedto designateby this expression
the belief which regardsthe soul as somethingindestructible,
eternal,indivisible, as a monad, as an atomon: this belief
ought to be expelledfrom science! Between ourselves,it is
not at all necessary to get rid of "the soul" thereby,and thus
renounce one of tlieoldest and most venerated "
hj^otheses
as happens frequentlyto the clumsiness of naturalists, who
can hardlytouch on the soul without immediatelylosingit.
But the way is open for new acceptations and refinements of
the soul-hypothesis; and such conceptions
and "soul of subjectivemultiplicity," and "soul as social
as "mortal soul,"
structure of the instincts and passions," want henceforth to
have
legitimate rights in science. In that the new psychologist
is about to put an end to the superstitions which have
hitherto flourished with almost
idea of the soul,he is really, as
tropical luxuriance around the
it were, thrustinghimself into
a new desert and a new distrust" it is possiblethat the older
psychologists had a merrier and more comfortable time of
it;eventually, however,he finds that preciselytherebyhe
is also condemned to invent "
who knows? perhapsto
discover the new.
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Psychologists
should bethink themselves before putting
the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct
of an organicbeing. A livingthingseeks above all to discharge
its "
strength ^lifeitselfis
Will to Power; self-preservation
is only one of the indirect and most frequentresults"