The Human Organism Is Thus Still Developing

East Asia Confirms The Superior Capacity Of Industrial Capitalism In Raising The Material Standard Of Living Of Large Masses Of People.

There Are Times In History When The Dark Drums Of God Can Barely Be Heard Amid The Noises Of This World. Then It Is Only In Moments Of Silence, Which Are Rare And Brief, That Their Beat Can Be Faintly Discerned. There Are Other Times. These Are The Times When God Is Heard In Rolling Thunder, When The Earth Trembles And The Treetops Bend Under The Force Of [god’s] Voice. It Is Not Given To Men [and Women] To Make God Speak. It Is Only Given To Them To Live And To Think In Such A Way That, If God’s Thunder Should Come, They Will Not Have Stopped Their Ears.

To Be Located In Society Means To Be At The Intersection Point Of Specific Social Forces. Commonly One Ignores These Forces One Also Knows That There Is Not An Awful Lot That One Can Do About This.

On The One Hand, Man Is A Body, In The Same Way That This May Be Said Of Every Other Animal Organism. On The Other Hand, Man Has A Body. That Is, Man Experiences Himself As An Entity That Is Not Identical With His Body, But That, On The Contrary, Has That Body At Its Disposal. In Other Words, Man's Experience Of Himself Always Hovers In A Balance Between Being And Having A Body, A Balance That Must Be Redressed Again And Again.

In Acute Suffering The Need For Meaning Is As Strong Or Stronger Than The Need For Happiness.