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

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Well, I cannot go into detail today because there is not enough time. But if one really compares what pulsates in social and moral life with what exists in organic life, then the comparison is only valid insofar as one must compare the individual state, indeed, the individual community, with a cell. And if one wants to compare a collection of cells, such as an organism, one can only use the entire life on the whole earth for comparison with the organism.

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