HUMAN LIFE 



But he knows, if he is a wise and honest 

 biologist, what I have so often repeated, 

 namely, that he doesn t know it all. 

 When the future or destiny of the human 

 individual are the subject of inquiry the 

 biologist has little more to say than I 

 have already indicated. He remembers 

 his laboratory and tells what he has 

 observed in it. Then he remembers his 

 wife and child and himself, and his heart, 

 not the heart of his laboratory experi 

 ments, fills with such thrilling emotions 

 and his brain conjures up such pictures of 

 possibilities for himself and his family 

 and for all humankind that he wonders if 

 he is really the same being that observes 

 things in a laboratory or museum. His 

 laboratory tells him what a precarious and 

 fragile thing life is, how material and 

 condition-ruled and circumscribed a liv 

 ing creature is. But his wife and child 

 and his own consciousness tell him how 

 much more, how immeasurably more, 

 there is in life than he learns in his 

 laboratory. It is this extra-laboratory 

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