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An audacious philosopher, the German von Hartmann, considers the unconscious as a universal force, specifically an evil one, which influences things and beings in a constantly harmful way; and such is the pessimism generated in him by the fear of that terrible unconscious that he advises not individual suicide, which he considers as insufficient, but “cosmic suicide,” hoping that powerful forces of destruction will be devised by mankind, enabling it to destroy at once the whole planet …