New Critique II, p. 53 (1955)
According to the temporal relationship between foundation and superstructure in the cosmic world-order, man is not there before the things of inorganic nature. But, viewed from the supertemporal creaturely root of the earthly world [1], this organic nature, just as the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingom, has no existence apart from man, and man has been created as the lord of the creation.
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[1] This is what in Genesis I is called the "earth" in its contradistinction to the "Heavens", viz. the temporl world concentrated in man.
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