Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.