1818 Jan y 1

Not Paul

III. Doctrine Asceticism

Ch. Asceticism continued

§. 4. Sensibility condemned

§. 4. War made by Asceticism against the pleasures of sense—its

groundlessness.

The pleasures against which the sharpest /most [...?]/ war has thus been kept up the

pleasures which have borne the principal marks of this hostility have been the

pleasures of the table and the pleasures of the bed.

The pleasures of the table have been dealt boldly enough with, but the pleasures of

the be, as being the more intense have been dealt with still worse. The pleasures of

the table could not be /have been/ struck out altogether: for with them if struck

out, forasmuch as from the satisfaction of /given to/ the appetite of hunger and

thirst it is possible that pleasure should be altogether excluded life itself the

life of each and every individual would be struck out: and by the ascetic life can

not be parted with—for in that case all pains would vanish with it—and to the votary

of asceticism life is indispensable, as being the only receptacle into which pains

can be inserted: accordingly when by the /his own/ supposition/ such is a man’s

condition that life has been emptied /bereft/ of all its pleasures, then it is that

his anxiety to preserve it is extreme: and by parting with life to obtain deliverance

in a /one and the same/ moment from all pains, this as it is the last and the most

comprehensive is in his eyes of all ones the most flagitious and unpardonable.