MAN 211 



Nature not above it. If he is the goal toward which 

 the ascending series of living forms has continually 

 tended, he is a part of the series the real goal lies far 

 above him. 



Pascal says, "It is dangerous to show a man too 

 clearly how closely he resembles the brute without 

 showing him at the same time his greatness. It is 

 equally dangerous to impress upon him his greatness 

 without his lowliness. It is still more dangerous to 

 leave him in ignorance of both. But it is of great ad- 

 vantage to point out to him both characteristics side 

 by side." 



A great German thinker began his work on the 

 human soul with a discussion of the law of gravitation. 



All study of man must begin with the study of the 

 atom. Man's life we have seen to be the aggregate of 

 the work of all the cells of his body. But the pro- 

 toplasm which composes his cells is a chemical com- 

 pound, and hence subject to all the laws of all the 

 atoms of which it is composed. And its molecules, 

 or the smallest mechanically separable compounds of 

 these atoms, are arranged and related according to the 

 laws of physics, so as to permit or produce the play 

 of certain forces which are always the result of atomic 

 or molecular combination. Every motive or thought 

 demands the combustion of a certain amount of 

 material which has been already assimilated in the 

 microscopic cellular laboratories of our body. Every 

 vital activity is manifested at least through chemical 

 and physical forces. And the elements of the fuel 

 for our engines we receive through plants from the 

 inorganic world. For the plant, as we have seen, 

 stores up as potential energy in its compounds the 



