[19] _W. P._, Vol. I, p. 339. See also Hegel (_Vorlesungen über Æsthetik_, p. 128): "The instinct of curiosity and the desire for knowledge, from the lowest stage up to the highest degree of philosophical insight, is the outcome only of man's yearning to make the world his own in spirit and concepts." [20] _W. P._, Vol. II, p. 60. [21] "Truth is that kind of error without which a certain species of living being cannot exist" (_W. P._, Vol. II, p. 20). See also _G. E._, pp. 8, 9: "A belief might be false and yet life-preserving." See also _W. P._, Vol. II, pp. 36, 37: "We should not interpret this _constraint_ in ourselves to imagine concepts, species, forms, purposes, and laws as if we were in a position to construct a real world; but as a constraint to adjust a world by means of which our existence is ensured: we thereby create a world which is determinable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us." [22] _W. P._, Vol. II, p. 76. [23] _Z._, II, XXIV. See also _W. P._, Vol. II, p. 33: "Truth is the will to be master over the manifold sensations that reach consciousness; it is the will to classify phenomena according to definite categories." [24] _W. P._, Vol. II, p. M. See also Schelling, _System des transcendentalen Idealismus_, p. 468, where the author says, "Science, in the highest interpretation of this term, has one and the same mission as Art." [25] _W. P._, Vol. II, pp. 28, 90, 103. 2. The First Artists. For it was then that man's strongest instinct became creative in man's highest product--the artist--and the discovery was made that the world, although "without form" and "void," as a fact, could be simplified and made calculable and full of form and attractions, as a valuation, as an interpretation, as a spiritual possession. With the world at a distance from him, unfamiliar and unhuman, man's existence was a torment. With it beneath him, inside him, bearing the impress of his spirit, and proceeding from him, he became a lord, casting care to the winds, and terror to the beasts around. Man, the bravest animal on earth, thus conceived the only possible condition of his existence; namely, to become master of the world. And, when we think of the miracles he then began to perform, we cease from wondering why he once believed in miracles, why he thought of God as in his own image, and why he made his strongest instinct God, and thereupon made Him say: "Replenish the earth and subdue it!" It was therefore the powerful who made the names of things into law.[26] It was their Will to Power that simplified, organized, ordered and schematized the world, and it was their will to prevail which made them proclaim their simplification, their organization, their order and scheme, as the norm, as the thing to be believed, as the world of values which must be regarded as creation itself.