ABSTRACT
The masses will live at peace because peace is an attribute of humans as a species, but they will be only an instrument. Peace is the human being's most difficult undertaking precisely because life and death are at stake in it. Human beings are men and women whose ontological relation determines the historical relation among all individuals. The unachieved relation between man and woman, the fratricidal struggle is born, the war that pits one human creature against another. Nature wills war, but peace is not the far-off goal of nature's scheme. Humans can find their nature only in what transcends the intelligible. The visceral hatred that each sex feels toward the other, and at bottom toward itself, seems to be based entirely on the violence of an instinct that, according to nature, should have moved them to mutual desire.
