Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a type of boredom, which paralyzes in a different way from fear, but almost as much. Moreover, there are certain situations which, involving as they do a diffused anguish without any clearly defined risks, spread the two kinds of disease at once. Risk is a form of danger, which provokes a deliberate reaction, that is to say, it doesn't go beyond the soul's resources to the point of crushing the soul beneath a load of fear. In some cases, there is a gambling aspect to it, in others, where some definite obligation forces one to face it, it represents the finest possible stimulant. The protection of humankind from fear and terror doesn't imply the abolition of risk, it implies, on the contrary, the permanent presence of a certain amount of risk in all aspects of social life, for the absence of risk weakens courage to the point of leaving the soul, if the need should arise, without the slightest inner protection against fear. All that is wanted is for risk to offer itself under such conditions that it is not transformed into a sensation of fatality.