Life Is Made Too Easy. Mankind's Moral

People Accept A Representation In Which The Elements Of Wish And Fantasy Are Purposely Included But Which Nevertheless Proclaims To Represent "the Past" And To Serve As A Guide-rule For Life, Thereby Hopelessly Confusing The Spheres Of Knowledge And Will.

It Is An Evil World. The Fires Of Hatred And Violence Burn Fiercely. Evil Is Powerful, The Devil Covers A Darkened Earth With Hisblack Wings. And Soon The End Of The World Is Expected. But Mankind Does Not Repent, The Church Struggles, And The Preachers And Poets Warn And Lament In Vain.

Whether The Aim Is In Heaven Or On Earth, Wisdom Or Wealth, The Essential Condition Of Its Pursuit And Attainment Is Always Security And Order.

Every Work Of History Constructs Contexts And Designs, Forms In Which Past Reality Can Be Comprehended. History Creates Comprehensibility Primarily By Arranging Facts Meaningfully And Only In A Very Limited Sense By Establishing Strict Causal Connections.

History Can Predict Nothing Except That Great Changes In Human Relationships Will Never Come About In The Form In Which They Have Been Anticipated.