seems to me better adapted than this monistic per- 

 spective to give us the proper standard and the broad outlook 

 which we need in the solution of the vast enigmas that surround us. 

 It not only clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it 

 dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and 

 arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable uni- 

 verse, and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable ele- 

 ment. This boundless presumption of conceited man has misled 

 him into making himself "the image of God," claiming an "eternal 

 life" for his ephemeral personality, and imagining that he possesses 

 unlimited "freedom of will." The ridiculous imperial folly of Caligula 

 is but a special form of man's arrogant assumption of divinity. Only 

 when we have abandoned this untenable illusion, and taken up the 

 correct cosmological perspective, can we hope to reach the solution 

 of the " Riddle of the Universe." 



THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE 



