forged, stretched, roasted, annealed, refined — to that which must necessarily SUFFER, and IS MEANT to suffer? And our sympathy — do ye not understand what our REVERSE sympathy applies to, when it resists your sympathy as the worst of all pampering and enervation? — So it is sympathy AGAINST sympathy! — But to repeat it once more, there are higher problems than the problems of pleasure and pain and sympathy; and all systems of philosophy which deal only with these are naivetes.

226. WE IMMORALISTS. — This world with which WE are concerned, in which we have to fear and love, this almost invisible, inaudible world of delicate command and delicate obedience, a world of “almost” in every respect, captious, insidious, sharp, and tender — yes, it is well protected from clumsy