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inasmuch as a power operates therein, is not just the power of will, the effect of will. Granted, finally, that we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive life as the development and ramification of one fundamental form of will⁠—namely, the Will to Power, as my thesis puts it; granted that all organic functions could be traced back to this Will to Power, and that the solution of the problem of generation and nutrition⁠—it is one problem⁠—could also be found therein: one would thus have acquired the right to define all active force unequivocally as Will to Power . The world seen from within, the world defined and designated according to its “intelligible character”⁠—it would simply be “Will to Power,” and nothing else.