Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous LangeHistory shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Christian Lous LangeThe idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous LangeBut teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.
Christian Lous Lange