ABSTRACT
… if industry is conceived as an exoteric form of the realisation of the essential human faculties, one is able to grasp also the human essence of Nature or the natural essence of man. The natural sciences will then abandon their abstract materialist, or rather, idealist, orientation, and will become the basis of a human science, just as they have already become—though in an alienated form—the basis of a really human life. One basis for life and another for science is a priori a falsehood. Nature as it develops in human history, in the genesis of human society, is the real nature of man; thus Nature, as it develops through industry, though in an alienated form, is truly anthropological Nature.
