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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.