conducted itself, has been merely a nobleand rudimentary childish game, and thetime is perhaps very close at hand, whenpeople will understand just how little hassufficed again and again to provide thefoundation stones for the lofty andunconditional philosophical constructionsof the sort dogmatists have erected up tonow—any popular superstition fromunimaginably long ago (like thesuperstition of the soul, which today, inthe form of the superstition about thesubject and the ego, has still not stoppedstirring up mischief), perhaps some gamewith words, a seduction by somegrammatical construction, or a daringgeneralization from very narrow, verypersonal, very human, all-too-humanfacts. The philosophies of the dogmatists were,one hopes, only an involuntary promisewhich lasted for thousands of years, as theastrologers were in even earlier times. Intheir service, people expended more work,
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