6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

Let me conclude by adding this. In recent times, there have always been – and even now it is emerging and causing a stir – such views of social and moral life and of state and political life which compare the state, for example, with an organism, with a life form. An excellent researcher whom I greatly admire has published a sensational book: “The State as a Life Form.” But it is really an example of what must be overcome. Some have tried to draw these analogies, to compare the state to an organism. You can compare anything. If it were a matter of comparison, you could easily draw comparisons between a peach and a walking stick; it just depends on whether you are clever enough to do so! Comparisons are not important at all; what matters is that the comparison is realistic, if it is to be used at all.