Mikhail a écrit :
..."It cannot be whether to assume that the insects are another line in the work of nature, not connected with the creation of man, but, possibly, that preceded it? Passing to the facts, we are forced to recognize that the insects by no means are not preparatory stage in molding of man. It is not possible them to consider the by-product of human evolution. On the contrary, in the structure of organism, its individual parts and organs insects reveal those more advanced in comparison with the mammals or the man of form. One cannot fail to see that in some forms of the life of insects are revealed such phenomena, which cannot be explained without the very complex hypotheses; these hypotheses make it necessary to recognize the very rich past after the insects, so that their present forms is necessary to consider degenerating.
Last consideration relates, mainly, to the organized associations of ants and bees. After becoming acquainted with their life, one cannot fail to yield to the strongest surprise and confusion. Ants and bees in the equal degree cause our admiration by the striking completeness of their organization; at the same time they repulse and frighten us, they generate a feeling of unaccountable aversion by their invariably cold reason, which rules in their life, by the absolute impossibility for the individual to be freed from the rotation of the life of anthill or beehive. Thought terrifies us, that also we can resemble on them!
Actually, what place do occupy the associations of ants and bees in the general order of things on our earth? How could they appear by such, such as they to us were known? All observations of their life and with organization unavoidably lead to one conclusion. The initial organization of the "beehive" and of "anthill" in the distant past, undoubtedly, required reason and powerful logical reason, although for their further existence it was required neither reason nor reason.
How this could happen?
Most likely, for one reason. If ants or bees (or both these of form) in the different periods were the reasonable and evolving essences, and then they lost reason and capability for evolution, this could happen only because their "reason" went against their its own "evolution". In other words, assuming that they contribute to their evolution, they contrived in a some manner it to stop.
It is possible to assume that the ants and bees appeared from the great laboratory and were sent to the earth with the privilege in the possibility developments. But both those and, etc. forewent its privilege and ceased to evolve after the long period of fight and efforts, it is more precise, they ended the message of the evolving flow. After this, for nature it was necessary to take its own measures. Insects were completely isolated, and it proved to be necessary to begin new experiment.
If we allow this possibility, it cannot be to assume that the ancient legends about a drop in the essences, which preceded man, do relate to the ants and the bees? Us they can confuse their small in comparison with us sizes. But the sizes of the living beings, in the first place, thing is very relative; in the second place, in certain cases they very rapidly change. Thus, in the case of the separate classes of animals (for example, the fishes, amphibious or insects) nature holds in its hands of thread, which regulate their sizes, and never are let out these threads from the hands. In other words, nature is capable of changing the sizes of these animals, anything other in them changing, and it can produce this change for one generation, i.e., immediately, stopping their development at the known stage. Each saw tiny fishes, exactly of similar to the large, small frogs and the like in the plant peace this is still more obvious. Are certain, this not universal rule, and some essences, as men and the majority of highest mammals, they reach value almost greatest possible for them. However, as far as insects are concerned, ants and bee, it is very probably, they were much larger than now, although it is possible to argue on this score. Perhaps, a change in the dimensions of ant or bee required considerable changes in their internal organization.
It is interesting to note existence of legends about the gigantic ants in Tibet; these legends are recorded in Herodotus ("history", book XI) and Pliniya ("natural history", by the book III).
Certainly, not such a one is simple to visualize lyutsifera in the form of bee or titaniums in the appearance of ants. But if we to the instant forego ourselves the idea of the need for human form, the large part of our difficulties here disappears.
The error of these superhuman essences, the reason for their drop were unavoidably the same nature, as the error, perfected by Adam and Eva. Obviously, they were assured in the fact that they know, what good is and what is evil; they believed in the fact that they can act independently. They rejected the idea of higher knowledge and internal circle of life, they placed their faith in their own knowledge, in their forces and understanding of purposes and tasks of their existence. But their understanding, probably, was much more erroneous, and errors - by much less naive than the error of Adam and Eva, so that the results of their error proved to be where more serious. Therefore ants and bees not only stopped evolution, but also, after changing its existence, they made its completely impossible.
The order of the life of bees and ants, their ideal Communist organization they indicate nature and form of their drop. It is possible to visualize that in the different times of both the bee and of ants they reached sufficiently high, although one-sided culture, wholly based on the intellectual considerations benefit and benefit, without any imagination, without ezoterizma, without the mysticism. They organized their life on the basis of unique "Marxism", which seemed them by very precise and scientific. They carried out the socialist order of things, which completely subordinates individual to the interests of society in the agreement with their understanding of these interests. Thus, they destroyed any possibility for the development of individual, for his separation from overall mass.
But precisely the development of individuals and their isolation made of the overall mass composed the purpose of nature; the possibility of evolution was based on this.
Neither bee nor ants desired to recognize this. They saw their purpose in by something other, they attempted to subjugate nature. And to one degree or another they changed the plan of nature, made its fulfillment by impossible.
It is necessary to remember that it was spoken earlier: each "experiment" of nature, i.e., each living being, each living organism is the expression of space laws, complex symbol or hieroglyph. After beginning to change their existence, their life and form, bee and the ants, undertaken as individuals, destroyed their relation with the laws of nature, they ceased to express these laws individually and they began to express them is only collectively. And then nature raised its magic baton - and converted them in the small insects, not capable of causing to nature any harm.
Their cognitive abilities, completely useless in the well organized anthill or the beehive, atrophied after a certain time; automatic habits began to be transferred from generation to generation; and ants became "insects", by what we them now know, and bees even began to bring to man benefit. *
* let us note, by the way that nature of automatism, controlling life beehive or anthill, cannot be explained with the aid of the psychological concepts of European literature. I will speak about them in another book, presenting the bases of the study, mentioned in the introductory part.
Actually, with the observation of anthill or beehive two things always strike us: first, the sum of rationality and calculation, inserted in the initial organization, in the second place, the complete absence of reason in the activity. The reason, inserted in this organization, was very narrow and strictly utilitarian; it calculated everything in the limits of data of conditions and nothing it saw beyond their limits. However, this reason was required only for the initial calculation and the estimation. Once started, mechanism no longer required any mind: automatic habits and customs automatically were mastered and were transferred to the following generations, which ensured their safety in the constant form. In the beehive or the anthill the "reason" is not simply useless, but it can even prove to be harmful and dangerous, since rationality is not capable with the identical accuracy of transferring from generation to generation all laws, rule and method of operations. Reason can forget, distort, add something new; reason can take away to the "mysticism", to the idea of the highest reason, to the idea of ezoterizma. Therefore it became necessary to banish reason from ideal socialism of beehive or anthill as the harmful for the society element, such as it was actually and.
Certainly, in this case could arise the fight - period, when the ancestors of ants or bees, the yet not lost ability thinkings, clearly saw their position, realized the inevitable beginning of degeneration and attempted to fight with it, to free individual from his unconditional subordination to society. But fight proved to be hopeless - and I could not lead to the victory. The iron laws of anthill and beehive very soon managed the rebellious elements, and through rebellious individuals several generations, probably, simply they ceased to be born. Both the beehive and the anthill gradually became ideal Communist states.
In his book "life of thermite" Maurice meterlink gathered much interesting material about the life of these insects, even more surprising than ants and bee.
However, with the first attempts to study the life of the thermite Of meterlink experienced the same strange emotional sensation, about which I spoke above:
... This makes with our their almost brothers and, in the opinion of some, it forces these unhappy insects - to the larger degree than bees and other living beings on the earth - to be provozvestnikami, and possibly, and by the forerunners of our own fate. Further Meterlink stops on the antiquity of the thermite, which are much more ancient than the man, it is specific on their enormous number and variety. After which Of meterlink it passes to the fact that he calls the "civilization of thermite":
Their earliest civilization is most curious, most complete, most reasonable and, to a certain extent, most logical and which corresponds to the difficulties of existence of all civilizations, which appeared on the terrestial globe before our own. According to some points of view, this civilization, although it is fierce, severe and frequently seems repellent, it exceeds the civilizations of bees, ants and even person himself. In the nest of termites the gods of communism became the insatiable molochs: the more to them they return, the more they require - and they persist in their requirements until individual not is destroyed, and his misery will not become absolute. This terrible tyranny does not have a similarity among the people, since if the goods of civilization use at least few, in the nest of termites them uses no one.
Discipline, more severe than in karmelitov either trappistov, and voluntary subordination to laws or to the rules, which arrived god knows from where, they have equal not in one human association. The inevitability of new form, perhaps, the is most severe of all, social inevitability, to which dvizhemsya and we themselves, is added to those forms of inevitability, with which we already met and about which sufficiently thought. Here there is no leisure, besides the latter for all of sleep; disease is here not admitted, and weakness bears after itself death sentence. Communism is brought to the boundaries of cannibalism and koprografii.
The forced deprivations and the misfortunes of many no one bring benefit or happiness, and all this so that the universal desperation would continue, would be renewed and would grow until there is a peace these cities of insects, which were appeared to the light even to us, we could serve as the caricature on us of themselves, as parody to that terrestrial paradise, which is approached the majority of civilized peoples.
Meterlink it shows, what victims purchased this ideal regime:
In the thermite was before wings; now there are not. They have the eyes, to which it was necessary to endow. They have the floor, but also it it was necessary to sacrifice. Meterlink misses one thing: before sacrificing wings, sight and floor, for thermite it was necessary to forego the reason.
I, in spite of all this, the process, through which passed the thermite, Meterlink named evolution. This occurred because, as 4 already he spoke, in the contemporary thought any change in the form, proceeding in the long period, is called evolution. The force of the forced stereotype of pseudo-scientific thinking is truly striking. In the Middle Ages the philosophy and science had to coordinate their theories with the dogmas of church, in our time the role of these dogmas plays the "evolution". It is completely clear that under such conditions the thought cannot be developed freely... "
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