The theory of evolution as we know it, thinks about earth with all its living beings and the infinite cosmos as happening within time. The simple organisms develop to more and more complicated ones. A further state of development is always in a way more complete than the former one. When we look at it in this way, one can say that the theory of evolution brings us the struggle between the living beings. This struggle is also visible in the members of the human race, who can think and reason. Homo sapiens must be aware of this principle of development, of accomplishment, and he must live with the idea that one being is at a higher stage of development than another. Exactly this principle of natural development leads to the struggle between people, although it is in fact an unreasonable struggle. One should not feel responsible for his own state of development, if this state comes from nature alone. Why would one feel competition with other beings, if there is no possibility to take a part of ones development in ones own hands?
Whether unreasonable or not, I want to point to the facts here. In this case it is the concept of completion that leads to the concept that one being is more developed than another - which leads to strong feelings.
Now we try to reverse the train of thought. Let us imagine that in the beginning there was already a full, complete, refined image of mankind, of the human being. Let us imagine that completeness is no consequence of a long series of trial and error, of natural selection - a full completeness will never be realized - but that the full exquisite complete human being was already there in the beginning, in a way that is difficult to imagine of course. I began with the venture of independent thinking, and I will try to go on with it.
Thus we imagine a perfect, living concept of the human being which was there in the beginning. I do not want to think in an anthropocentric way, that everything in the world points to the human being. I neither want to think of a perfect human being that will be perfect forever. Perfection is never perpetual, it must be opened up again, and lead to other forms and stages. But when one wants to think about the question: What is a human being?, one will have to put him in the center of attention.
The human being as a complete ideal image, that was in the beginning already present as a living concept that has to be realized – it is difficult to explain. But if one wants to think in this reversed way, one finds a universe, in which everything that exists is in fact humanity already. All stages of development show sides of the development of humanity. Man has all his capacities, all his qualities, his abilities, but also his faults, mistakes and problems in his sphere, in his environment, his surroundings. I don't think of a single human being, but of mankind as a whole, that developed through centuries, through eons. In such an image of man there cannot be concurrence, competition, struggle, because everything there is, belongs to one's own development.
Racism only belongs to a theory of development like the theory of evolution. In a development of mankind with perfection in the beginning and all the stages together as an externalization of qualities there can never be racism.
Although eventually each human being has his own value – I will write about that later – each individual human being could bee seen as belonging to the human development in its totality in an organic way as well, with inclusion of all the good, true and beautiful, but also with inclusion of the evil, false and ugly, that man is capable of. Just as we cannot speak of perfection in an individual human being in our current stage of development, we can neither speak of perfection in mankind as a whole. But we could try to feel ourselves as mankind as a whole, on its way to perfection, where everyone necessarily has his own unique place.
An image of Orpheus who plays on his harp as an imagination of mankind in the midst of the expressions of his capacities and feelings, and his organs. The harp play of Orpheus commands and leads all characteristics and organs…
Mankind as a whole is a developing organism by Mieke Mosmuller