Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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