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2 revisions | jasirs94 at Nov 27, 2016 12:40 AM | |
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141Classification of the Sci duce the idea of purpose, and begin by asking What is the use of that individual man to whom the suicultural instincts minister? The answer of Nature,—
So careful of the type she seems, yes, long before Darwin so seemed she to Tennyson,—is that the individual is the instrument for preserving the race, that the suicultural is the mere servant of the publicultural instinct. We proceed then to ask, What is the use of the race? Is the mere swarming and copulation of human beings to be regarded as a good in itself? This is a question that Nature leaves for the Soul to answer. The Soul's answer is and always has been from those days of old, when, the author of the sixth chapter of Genesis represents Jehovah as inclined to look upon the Human Race as one of His failures,—the answer has been that Humanity is only worthy to endure so long as it is one of the agencies of creation, one of the ducts through which is | 141 |