The Self , in one way, as I pointed out, is that with which you have identified yourself. Well, let it be there, and that is one aspect of the matter. B. This is the law of contradiction. If A cannot be B, you cannot be somebody else. If the necessity is not there, affections cannot be in this world.
Nobody can love anything, no contact of one with the other is possible.
But such a thing is seen, and it is very much there. Such things cannot happen, but they must happen in order that the present type of life in this world may assume any meaning at all. If this is the meaning of our life in this world, you can imagine well what sort of meaning it should be. It is not for nothing that Milton had to write such a long poem on the fall of the angel to describe this condition, and he has described only ourselves, not somebody else about whom we are reading. This gaunatman , this self that is outside, that which identifies itself, is actually incapable of identification.