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The various shades of the philosophy
of pessimism finally ground them-
-selves upon the Budhistic [Buddhistic] assump-
-tion that conscious existence is an
evil, and the prolific source of all
other natural evils, and that bliss
is a dream of the ineffable, that
hovers forever between semi-con-
-scious being and extinction of
being. Having posited this assump-
-tion behind all the phenomena
of life, human experience will
be strangely non-natural if the
products of the growth do not
partake of the bitterness of the
root, and lead to the loathing of