" But we see, too, that the nohler races, or truly cultivated men even now 



raise their warning voices, put thoir small hand to the mighty work of restoring to 

 Nature her strength and fullness, yet in a higher stage than that of wi'W Nature; 

 rather dependent on the law of purpose given by Man, arranged according to plans 

 which are copied from the development of manhood itself. All this indeed remains 

 at present but a powerless, and for the whole, an insignificantly small enterprise, but 

 it preserves the faith in the vocation of Man and his power to fulfil it. In future 

 times he will and must, when he rules, leads and protects the whole, free Nature from 

 the tyrannous slavery to which he now abases her, and in which he can only keep her 

 by restless giant-struggles against the eternally Resisting. We see in the gray, 

 cloudy distance of the Future, a realm of Peace and Beauty on the Earth and in 

 Nature, but to reach it must Man long study in the School of Nature, and, before all, 

 free himself from the bonds of Egotism." — Schlciden. 



