Nevertheless, the soul that is enslaved to war cries out for deliverance, but deliverance itself appears to it
in an extreme and tragic aspect, the aspect of destruction. Any other solution, more moderate, more
reasonable in character, would expose the mind to suffering so naked, so violent that it could not be borne,
even as memory. Terror, grief, exhaustion, slaughter, the annihilation of comrades - is it credible that these
things should not continually tear at the soul, i ...