Even if through the peculiar disfavor of fate, or through the meager endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will were entirely lacking in the resources to carry out its aim, if with its greatest effort nothing were accomplished by it, and only the good will were left over (to be sure, not a mere wish, but as the mobilization of all means insofar as they are in our control): then it would shine all by itselfa like a jewel, as something that has its full worth in itself. Utility or fruitlessness can neither add to nor subtract anything from this worth. It would be only the setting, as it were,
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