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As a paleontologist, I have no illusion about the inexorable fact and forms of biological concurrence. But, in this same capacity, I absolutely refuse to transport bluntly the mechanical laws of selection to the human domain. For, if nature teaches us clearly that there is a universal fight for life, it teaches us no less categorically that, in passing from a stage of existence to another, living properties subsist only in being transformed or transposed. Exploitation and mutual soffocation can be the rule between infra-human zoological groups, because the latter are continually going to supplant each other and diverge from each other. In the case of the human network, by contrast, if the latter progresses only by converging, fraternal emulation must be substituted internally for hostile concurrence. Pursued on the bases of the most biological roots, the problem of the races, of their appearance, of their awakening, leads us thus to the point of recognizing that the only climate in which man can continue to grow is that of self-sacrifice and renunciation in a spirit of brotherhood. In truth, at the speed at which his awareness and his ambitions grow, the world will explode if he does not learn to love. (it) |
