The task is to raise the fathers, atom by atom.
Not resurrection in memory or in spirit. Fyodorov meant the physical reassembly of every human being who has died, performed by their descendants using science, and he called it the common task because there is no other.
The common task is literal and Fyodorov was impatient with attempts to soften it. The dead are irreplaceable particular people, not memories to be honoured, and the obligation is to reconstitute them bodily — collecting and recomposing the dispersed matter of every human being who has ever lived, by scientific means, as the unified project of the entire species. This is why space matters in cosmism: a resurrected humanity of a hundred billion people cannot be housed on one planet, so the regulation of nature must extend to the settlement of other worlds. The order of the reasoning is worth noticing, because it is the reverse of the usual one: cosmism does not want space travel and find a use for it, it wants the dead back and finds it needs somewhere to put them.
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