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humanity awakens to the consciousness of the
“holiness of generation.” This consciousness
will make the central work of society the
new race, its origin, its management, and its
education; about these all morals, all laws, all
social arrangements will be grouped. This
will form the point of view from which all
other questions will be judged, all other
regulations made. Up to now we have only heard
in academic speeches and in pedagogical
essays that the training of youth is the highest
function of a nation. In reality, in the family,
in the school, and in the state, quite other
standards are put in the foreground.
The new view of the “holiness of generation”
will not be held by mankind until it
has seriously abandoned the Christian point
of view and taken the view, born thousands of
years ago, whose victory has been first
foreshadowed in the century just completed.
The thought of development not only
throws light on the course of the world that
lies behind us, continued through millions of
years, with its final and highest point in man;
it throws light, too, on the way we have to
travel over; it shows us that we physically and
psychically are ever in the process of
becoming. While earlier days regarded man as a
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