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I: NATURE
Ultimate
wisdom always consists in understanding the instinctive causes—that
is: a man must never fall into the madness of believing
that he has really risen to be lord and master over Nature—which
is so easily induced by the conceit of half-education—but must
understand the fundamental necessity of Nature’s rule, and realize
how much his existence is subject to these laws of eternal combat
and upward struggle. Then he will sense that in a universe where
planets revolve around suns, and moons turn about planets, where
force alone forever masters weakness, compelling it to be an obedient
servant or else crushing it, there can be no special laws for
man. For him, too, the eternal principles of this ultimate wisdom
hold sway. He can try to grasp them; but escape them, never.
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man tries to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, he comes into
conflict with principles to which he himself owes his existence
as man. And so his action against Nature must lead to his own downfall. |
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too, of course, Nature can be mocked for a certain time, but her
revenge will not fail to appear. It just takes time to manifest
itself, or rather, it is often recognized too late by man. |
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| Eternal
Nature inexorably avenges the infringement of her commands.
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. . This planet once moved through space for millions of years without
human beings, and it can do so again some day if men forget that
they owe their higher existence, not to the ideas of a few crazy
ideologues, but to the knowledge and ruthless application of Nature’s
iron-clad laws. |
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. . It is life alone that all things must serve.
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