What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.