Scientific Sophisms. 2 45 



Nor is this all. Man is something more than 

 an intellectual animal. He is a free moral 

 agent : and, as such, and with the infinite 

 future which that freedom opens out before him 

 he differs from all the rest of the visible 

 universe by " a distinction so profound that no 

 one of those which separate other visible beings 

 is comparable with it. The gulf which lies 

 between his being as a whole, and that of the 

 highest brute, marks off vastly more than a 

 mere kingdom of material beings, and man, so 

 considered, differs far more from an elephant 

 or a gorilla than do these from the dust of the 

 earth on which they tread." 1 



1 M Lessons from Nature," p. 184. 



