Mystery envelops the origin of life on earth. Science has done much to unravel the mysteries of nature, but the riddle of life still remains unsolved. No answer has been given so the question, how did life come into this once lifeless earth? But if the origin of life is shrouded in darkness, not so is its character. Its essential feature is struggle. If there is any common element among all forms of life, high and low, it is this continuous struggle. If there is any common element among all forms of life, high and low, it is this continuous struggle. Pain and suffering born of this struggle permeate life, and rightly has Francis Thomson said,
We are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.
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The cause has alighted not only on man but on the entire animate and inanimate creation. The slender struggles with thousand impediments on its forward course and the planets roll round fighting with innumerable attractions. The same cruel struggle goes on in the animal world, and so fierce it is there that sometimes a whole species becomes, extinct. The survival of the fittest is the law of nature, so struggle goes on not only on this earth, but in the sky above and in the ocean below.
In the life of man is seen the same struggle from the cradle to the grave, the fetus in the mother's womb grows by struggling with adverse conditions. The cry of the newborn baby announces the coming fight of life. The child's fretting, crying, crawling and stumbling are but maneuvers in a long campaign. When it grows into a man, there begins another phase of its fight.
Man has diverse enemies to struggle with. First begins his lifelong struggle with the forces of nature. As he grows up, there comes his struggle with himself with his own passions and prejudices. These are sometimes the most dangerous enemies of man and the most difficult of all kinds of knowledge, so self conquest is the most arduous of all conquests. We may conquer the whole and yet remain a slave to ourselves, to just, greed, avarice, anger and jealously. The first and the foremost duty of a man, therefore, is to fight and conquer these internal foes.
But man is also a social being, living in a society and drawing nourishment from it. To live peacefully in a society requires conscious effort. He must adjust himself to the social environment and derive benefit from its benign aspects. Sometimes the social environment is not healthy, and therefore, inimical to his growth and development. In such cases he has got to fight with that society, its prejudices and harmful rites and customs. If he is strong, he triumphs, dragging the society tied to his triumphal chariot. But if he is week, he succumbs and is crushed by the social environment. How bitter can this struggle be will be evident from the life history of any great social reformer.
If man is a social being, he has a political existence. He lives in a state and is either a citizen or a subject. He struggles for political status, power and privileges. Those who are independent and those who are dependent, fight alike, only in different ways and perhaps with different weapons, but fight there is. In the modern world, there is going on a continuous warfare against autocratic powers, against vested interests, against the innate selfishness and avarice of the rich and the powerful. The cry for socialism is rending the air.
But the present day man has come to realize that political power alone will not bring him comfort. So he fights for economic well being. This economic problem has, of late begun to usurp men's whole attention. The struggle is keenest in this field. Here ruthless competition is driving the poor and the weak to the wall. But the struggle of human life is not confined to the sphere of social, political and economic problems, it is also seen in man's search for truth and religion. Here the dictum, "no pain, no gain," is awfully true.
So all through life, in the high and the low spheres, there is present this struggle. The struggle arises in man from his desire to improve his condition. There is in him an element of abiding discontent which is never satisfied and which drives him from sphere to sphere. His greatness as well as his misery are alike born of this discontent. So long as this will remain in man, the essence of life will be struggle. As the whole creation is trying to realize itself, this struggle is present in all the spheres and permeates life from the highest to the lowest. Truly has Emerson said,
Striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Man must know to swim along the nature.
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