In fact, the main principle of life
Is very simple -- just to survive
In all subdivisions of its vitality.
It means to be found in all of them:
When is completely safe and sound
And when broken up, it's all the same.
In considering life as subdivided,
We thus produce division which leads
To multiplication of it;
And in that multiplication we have
What it leads to the thought of effort
To secure it from extinguishing.
Hence, when a man comes forth
And is happily born, if he did not return
To his primary state of non-being,
We should have only seen his ghost.
When he comes forth and gets this return,
He dies, as we use to say,
To distinguish him from the other men.
He is extinguished, and yet has existence:
This is another way to say that in life
We have only man's ghostly projection.
By taking the tangible as an embodiment
Of the intangible, do we arrive at
A settlement of all the men's problems?
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