3.5 Last and First Men
Last modified 05/21/2008
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Let us conclude with the observation that in our framework we have brought
'evolution' into our present, but in a carefully guarded form, in which our free
activity as historical agents is moving to replace the factor of evolution. That
was actually always the case. But the point is that the 'first man' and the
'last man' (to invoke a new usage of a Nietzschean term) are now somewhat
ambiguous. The first man, as the creature emerging as 'homo sapiens' is in
reality, perhaps, a creature in transition, and his present and future
evolution, emerging into history, may or may not be completed, leaving us both
with a sense of our community with earliest men, and mindful of the future
evolution, and our own self-evolution into history that awaits us a task as yet
imcomplete.
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