29th December 2009
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Without work that transforms the real objective World, man cannot really transform himself. If he changes, his change remains “private,” purely subjective, revealed to himself alone, “mute,” not communicated to others. And this “internal” change puts him at variance with the World, which has not changed, and with the others, who are bound to the unchanged World. This change, then, transforms man into a madman or a criminal, who is sooner or later annhiliated by the natural and social objective reality. Only work, by finally putting the objective World into harmony with the subjective idea that at first goes beyond it, annuls the element of madness and crime that marks the attitude of every man who - driven by terror - tries to go beyond the given World of which he is afraid, in which he feels terrified, and in which, consequently he could not be satisfied.
