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For someone who, on the one hand, had learned to love scientific endeavour, but who, on the other hand, also recognised the profound influence that the scientific spirit had gained over all human life in recent times, the important question of life arose: Can science, where it seeks to develop to its highest flowering, as philosophy, provide what human beings must have from their deepest innermost being as the actual answers to the fundamental questions of life? And this question, in contrast to the consciousness of the time, split into two others: Does contemporary science provide what human beings must seek from their innermost urge? 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Alles, was man da an solchen Menschen erlebte, das führte einen dazu, zwei Fragen aufzuwerfen aus dem Zeitbewußtsein heraus, die von eminenter, rein menschlicher Bedeutung zu sein scheinen. Für jemand, der auf der einen Seite wissenschaftliches Streben lieben gelernt hat, der aber auch auf der andern Seite einsieht, welchen tiefgehenden Einfluß gerade der Wissenschaftsgeist in der neueren Zeit auf alles Leben der Menschen gewonnen hat, ergab sich die wichtige Lebensfrage: Kann Wissenschaft da, wo sie sich zu ihrer höchsten Blüte entwickeln will, als Philosophie dasjenige geben, was der Mensch aus seinem tiefsten Inneren heraus als die eigentlichen Antworten auf die Grundfragen des Lebens haben muß? Und diese Frage, sie spaltete sich gegenüber dem Zeitbewußstsein der damaligen Zeit in die zwei andern: Gibt die zeitgenössische Wissenschaft dasjenige, was der Mensch aus seinem innersten Drange suchen muß? 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