Note 59 — THE JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY. Vol. I. 1867. No. 4.
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The product is productive only from the fact of its being a product of the third power. But the idea of a productive product is itself a contradiction. What is productivity is not product, and what is product is not productivity. Therefore a product of the third power is itself a contradictory idea. From this even is manifest what an extremely artificial condition life is—wrenched, as it were, from Nature—subsisting against her will.