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side, is impossible and must be renounced with resig- 

 nation ? This is, indeed, possible. There is, indeed, 

 some hope in this quarter, the amount and nature of 

 which we shall make some attempt to indicate hereafter 

 in the proper place.* In the mean time, the reader is 

 not to conclude, from what has been said in this section, 

 that we attach much significance to the pessimist's 

 valuation of life, which, in reality, we regard as a very 

 erroneous estimate ; nor yet that we have been indulging 

 in a digression from the proper subject of our chapter, 

 which relates to the development of man. What has 

 been here said will be found to have its place in our 

 exposition and argument, as it has its significance in any 

 correct portrait of man or true account of his nature and 

 history. 



* See Book II. ch. i. and ii. 



