Species have their own lives as individuals do. When a species dies out, the environmental space nish that it had filled in becomes empty. Evolution, without will and planning, sets to create new variations of inhabitants from the living substance in order to fill the space. The most suitable one takes its place, and from then on protects it as its own. Suddenly the world divides: there are we, insiders and others, the outsiders.
    A building, too, is a material border separating the idea of "in" and "out". It sets apart home from alien, hot from cold, cosy from bleak, mine from yours. My house is my castle.
    Man can owe his evolutionary success not only to his abilities of abstract thinking but also to the fact that in spite of all contrary temptations he could alloy it with altruism, characteristic of the animal world, too, as well as with socialization and self-consciousness, what is more, the experiencing of "we-consciousness" and the raising of it to a social and cultural level. One of the materialization of this is the public institute, the public building in which the work of the employees is inspired by public service.
    What is a collection worth hidden in a safe? What is a library worth if the readers cannot frequent it? What is research worth if it has no lesson to teach or no benefit to give to people?
    On the opening of the Geological Institute walls were ready, as was everything else that distinguished it from the outside world. At the same time, through the exhibitions, the library and researches of public utility, transition was born between the "in" and the "out".