human
being there, is precisely the mysterious spook that we call highest essence. And to get to the bottom of this _spook_, to _comprehend_ it, to discover _reality_ in it (to prove
gpt
)--this task men set to themselves for thousands of years; with the horrible impossibility, the endless Danaid-labor, of transforming the spook into a non-spook, the unreal into something real, the _spirit_ into an entire and _corporeal_ person,--with this they tormented themselves to death. Behind the existing world they sought the