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    If above your head the great world with its wolf-whiskers is tumbling gloomily, and you are forced to deceive and delude yourself, that all redemptive, vain hopes are in vain, you may still be afraid of one piece, like a small animal stuck in a den, - yet I beg you to learn to be brave in yourself! Think but for a moment, and modestly heed my words of wisdom: what strength of soul, what greatness of human spirit, is the noble restraining, well-meant shackle! 

    Thy unbridled, hot-headed impulses, so often disturbed by the circuits of thy intellect, with outbursts of rage, and frivolous snorts, thus do thy bestial instincts debase themselves with venal persuasions! Fear not! Rather be justly ashamed, thy coronet, that thy beastly will should take thee by biology, while reason and pure thought should remain thy sole master! 

    Thou wilt grow up daily to man-trying tasks, as the expectant of learnable schema-games, of practicable routines! Be man and gentleman again - let your gears, shining above yourself, be your safe tool and weapon, so that your uninfluenceable or unstable cellular instincts, your primordial desires, may dictate your changeable destiny! 

    May your prudent and ever foresighted mind and heart work over your rebellious daily life. Learn to control the darker dignities of your beast-self, so that your organ cells, which are capable of fighting, may be reconciled with you: for I am worried and afraid, like all human companions, who are forced into slavery by slavish drudgery, by dusty, groveling humility. In your vulnerable vulnerability, in your muttering cowardice, may you remain steadfast and noble!    

     

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