180 WHAT IS LIFE ? 



Man is destined to ascend, and this ascending order of 

 structure and mind is forced upon him. 



justice, of national education, and our whole social and moral 

 organization remain in a state of barbarism.' " 



' This social and moral barbarism we shall never overcome by the 

 artificial and perverse training, the one-sided and defective teaching, 

 the inner untruth and the external tinsel of our present state of 

 civilization. It is above all things necessary to make a complete and 

 honest return to Nature and to natural relations. This return, how- 

 ever, will only become possible when man sees and understands his- 

 true ' place in Nature.' He will then, as Fritz Ratzel has excellently 

 remarked, ' no longer consider himself an exception to natural laws,, 

 but begin to seek for what is lawful in his own actions and thoughts, 

 and endeavour to lead a life according to natural laws.' He will 

 come to arrange his life with his fellow-creatures that is, the family 

 and the state not according to the laws of distant centuries, but 

 according to the rational principles deduced from knowledge of nature. 

 Politics, morals, and the principles of justice, which are still drawn 

 from all possible sources, will have to be formed in accordance with 

 natural laws only." (" The History of Creation," Prof. Ernst Haeckel r 

 1892, vol. ii. pp. 495-497.) 



