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in those petty thousands of years in which our
race became conscious of itself, shows in
making this statement that he stands on the same
level of reflection as an ichthyosaurus of the
Jura period, that apparently had not even
an intimation of man as a possibility of the
future.
But he who knows that man has become
what he now is under constant transformations,
recognises the possibility of so influencing
his future development that a higher type
of man will be produced. The human will is
found to be a decisive factor in the production
of the higher types in the world of animal and
plant life. With what concerns our own race,
the improvement of the type of man, the
ennobling of the human race, the accidental still
prevails in both exalted and lower forms. But
civilisation should make man conscious of an
end and responsible in all these spheres where
up to the present he has acted only by impulse,
without responsibility. In no respect has
culture remained more backward than in those
things which are decisive for the formation of
a new and higher race of mankind.
It will take the thorough influence of the
scientific view of humanity to restore the full
naïve conviction, belonging to the ancient
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