Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.