Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. Grove Press, 1967. It is too soon . . . Man is not merely a possibility of recapture or of negation. If it is true that consciousness is a process of transcendence, we have to see too that this transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding.
Man is a yes that vibrates to cosmic harmonies.
Uprooted, pursued, baffled, doomed to watch the dissolution of the truths that he has worked out for himself one after another, he has to give up projecting onto the world an antinomy that coexists with him. To us, the man who adores the Negro is as 'sick' as the man who abominates him. In the course of this essay we shall observe the development of an effort to understand the black-white relation. The white man is sealed in his whiteness. Man's tragedy, Nietzsche said, is that he was once a child. . . .