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him. Man's sustenance and continuance depend on nature. Man depends for his very life on the air around him which he breathes. If air be denied to a man a few moments, he would die. The food he eats is grown by another; he did not make the clothes he wears. Man's existence is made possible by the orderliness, harmony, regularity, creativity of the universe. Were nature to stop functioning as it does he would cease to exist. The elementary conditions were not created by man. Man lives in uncertainty. Man can never be sure of what the future will bring. Man cannot be certain that he will even be alive tomorrow. As man cannot know the future with absolute certainty, so he cannot insure against it completely. And what is true for ourselves is true for all others.
VALIDITY IN NATURE
When one realizes how much nature gives him gratuitously the air does not demand recompense for allowing us to breathe it; the Sun does not insist on a payment for warming us-when one sees how little he gives and how much he gets from the universe, all conceit leaves him. When man sees life as a gift, he no longer demands, cajoles, threatens, coerces or punishes; since to do so is contrary to the gratuity, the free self giving of nature herself. All men have the same needs, physical and psychologica!. All men seek self-realization. All men yearn for happiness. All men have the same problems. All men face death. They share a common humanity and a universal destiny.
It is important to note further that, in general,
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