Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/390/en

Through the becoming-conscious of the principle of development, the human being passes from creature to creator. And so the question arises: Is he henceforth called to implant the idea of development into the world that has come into being, out of free willing? Or can this creative power refer only to his own development and to human development? Must he leave all else behind and condemn it to mere use and exploitation — namely plants, animals, the earth as a whole, which had and has so deep a share in his own development? The awakening to ecological consciousness generally reaches only so far as to want to preserve the accomplished work of creation as it has become,