THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



of endless labor suddenly become clear in con- 

 sciousness, be expressed in space, give solutions 

 and answers why it is thus and not otherwise. 

 The possibility of contemplation of life con- 

 cerning life is now suddenly attained. Every- 

 thing is now to be thought. 



This being felt itself lonesome, shivering in 

 spite of his hearth fire as though hunted out of 

 a paradise. He felt the whole contrast : outside 

 the world that simply went on without question- 

 ing — here a mind, that imagined, questioned, 

 thought — ^that questioned, why.'* 



But that being did not know that the same 

 primitive elements of life that had created it, 

 were also active in this question and that this 

 question in itself was an unheard of, new con- 

 quest of this life, the highest ever attained upon 

 its whole earthly course. Life that had so long 

 built and built now lay hold on the brain. It 

 was as if a deep voice spoke within it; let us re- 

 main, consider, contemplate what we have done. 

 Let us lay down calculation concerning our- 

 selves and permit us to begin to take into ac- 

 count this new power. It needed this power, for 

 greater grew the demands. Let us see how we 

 can move along more direct roads than previous- 

 ly. We have blindly sown seeds and permitted 

 the best to arise. Let us look to see if it is not 

 much better to go with firm step towards a goal. 

 With a being that possesses an eye and remem- 

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