THE PRINCIPLE OF HOPE

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37WILL AND NATURE, THE TECHNOLOGICAL UTOPIAS
Beneficent is the fire might
If man controls and guards it right.
Schiller
Better like this though:
Sublime spirit, you gave me, gave me all
For which I asked. You did not turn in vain
Your countenance to me within the fire.
You gave me glorious nature for my kingdom,
The strength to feel and to enjoy it. Not
Just cold astonished visits do you allow,
You let me look into her breast so deep
As if into the bosom of a friend.
Goethe
In the language of the old legends the task of man with regard to nature involved nothing less than propagating and spreading a paradise over his earth; in
other words, man's vocation as a heavenly body of the earth was no less than to help this earth to bring forth heavenly fruits and forms and thus to perform
a similar service for it, only in a higher sense, as the external heavenly body, the sun, performs for it: which likewise not only liberates and releases the
sealed earthly powers from their chains — like the vanished and fettered spirits in fables — but also gives them the necessary restoration for growth, for
blossoming and bearing fruit. Just as in the rising of the external solar image the entire external organism unfolds, so in the rising of the divine image in man
this external nature was to be equipped and fortified for the unfolding and consequent effects of an internal, higher organism.
Franz von Baader, On the Foundation of Ethics through Physics
It is characteristic of the ideology of a decaying class that it is incapable of imagining the harmony between human beings and the universe. The
contradictions in the system oppose the conscious mastery of the forces of nature. The world seems to be hostile to a society which is paralysed by
internal disorder.
Roger Garaudy
The human essence of nature only exists for social man; for only here does she exist for him as a bond with man, as existence for the others and of the
others for him; only here does she exist as the basis of a human existence. Only here has his natural existence, his human existence and nature for him
become