Livets Bog, vol. 5
The eternal, absolute way to peace
1841. The materialistic world picture, the claim that chance is the first cause of life, must therefore be abandoned if mankind is again to get into contact with the ocean of law-bound forces that the true world picture represents, and of which terrestrial mankind itself constitutes a part, albeit a microscopic one. Mankind's materialistic, mistaken or illogical and thereby unscientific way of thinking with regard to its world view is more dangerous for its creation of culture and peace than any atomic or hydrogen bomb or any other flagrantly monstrous, ingenious infringements of the laws of Nature invented by terrestrial human beings, and the associated promotion of the killing principle. A way of acting that is at one with the logic that is bound by law in Nature's processes of creation is the absolutely only direct way to peace, quite apart from the fact that it leaves absolutely no trail of blood and is completely devoid of death rattle, screaming, torment, sabotage, disablement, destruction of culture, piles of rubble, homelessness, destitution, reduction to a state of stupidity and enslavement to a mental and physical proletariat.