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the more fiercely and destroy them the more 

 successfully. Let us be grateful, however, to 

 Professor Huxley for the scientific conclusions 

 which he has drawn. As practical premises 

 they will serve us for a wider syllogism than 

 he ventures to construct. It is the same with 

 Strauss. In spite of his excessive conservatism 

 in practical matters, this is the way in which 

 he formulates in general terms the " Rule of 

 Life " : 



"Ever remember that thou art human, not merely a natural 

 production ; ever remember that all others are human also, 

 and, with all individual differences, the same as thou, 

 having the same needs and claims as thyself : this is the 

 sum and substance of morality." 



" In man Nature endeavoured not merely to exa lt, b ut to 

 tran scend h erself. He must not t herefore be merely an 

 animal repeated ; he must be so mething more, somethi ng 

 b etter ." 



" Man not only can and should know Nature, but rule 

 both external Nature, so far as his powers admit, and the 

 natural within himself." ' 



It is unnecessary here to raise the question 

 how consciousness makes its appearance. It is 

 enough that human beings are not only engaged 



1 The Old Faith and the Nerv. Eng. Transl. ii. pp. 54, 

 57, 58 (sees. 70, 7T=secs. 74, 75 in German edit. 1875). 



