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is just a slowing of the tempo of growth for a long time so small continuations are not noticed.

On 'logical semblance'The concepts 'individual' and 'species' equally false and merely apparent. 'Species' expresses only the fact that an abundance of similar creatures appear at the same time and that the tempo of their further growth and change is for a long time slowed down, so actual small continuations and increases are not very much noticed ( a phase of evolution in which the evolution is not visible, so an equilibrium seems to have been attained, making possible the false notion that a goal has been attained-and that evolution has a goal-). (Nietzsche 'will to power' 282)

is merely a phase of evolution in which the evolution is not visible because it is in a period of slowness.

is that for which death is simply what sleep is for the individual.

Thus the alternation of death and reproduction is as the pulse-beat of the species. . . . Death is for the species what sleep is for the individual... . . . this is nature's great doctrine of immortality. . . . For the whole world, with all its phenomena, is the objectivity of the one indivisible will, the Idea, which is related to all other Ideas as harmony is related to the single voice.

 does not grow more perfect, rather it grows weaker. The weak, being more numerous and more clever, continually dominate the strong (who become so strong that they abandoned mind as unnecessary).

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and againthe reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. . . . To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it. Friedrich Nietzsche

's pulse-beat is the alteration between death and reproduction in the individual.

is wise while the individual is foolish. When time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

The individual is foolish... the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation... but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

's preservation sometimes demands that even the most harmful man may really be the most useful.

Even the most harmful man may really be the most useful when it comes to the preservation of the species... for he nurtures either in himself or in others, through his effects, instincts without which humanity would long have become feeble or rotten. Hatred, the mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, the lust to rob and dominate, and whatever else is called evil belongs to the· most amazing economy of the preservation of the species.

is everything, one is always none, and so the individual, incapable of doing it harm or good, is fated to live in a laughable state of ultimate liberation and irresponsibility.

Even laughter may yet have a future. I mean. when the proposition the species is everything, one is always none has become part of humanity, and this ultimate liberation and irresponsibility has become accessible to all at all times. Perhaps laughter will then have formed an 'alliance with wisdom, perhaps only Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1882. Gay Science. Kaufmann trans. will then be left.

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