We are witnessing the almost explosive proliferation of a part of the biosphere, which (through emergence into reflection) has suddenly been released from the rest of the living mass.
Man in his thousands and thousands of millions—simply the equivalent of a gas under pressure.
The conquest of the world by man’s intelligence is primarily and basically a phenomenon of an ‘intensification of consciousness’ closely linked with the historical progress of civilization. Precisely in so far as they are forced together, the thinking elements, which we all are, undoubtedly increase, under the influence of inter-reflection, their power of individual reflection. Brought together as one whole, they can understand what a single one of them in isolation could never have succeeded in understanding.
There is the entire universe concentrating in the depths of our being.