The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Man not the summit of Being
Man not the summit of Being.
"We are surrounded by wonders and mysteries everywhere. I have often in the spring-time watched the advance of the sprouting leaves, and of the grass, and of the flowers, and observed the general joy of opening life in nature, and I have asked myself this question: 'Can it be that there is no being or thing in nature that knows more about these things than I do? Do I in my ignorance represent the highest knowledge of these things existing in this universe?' The man who puts that question fairly to himself, if he be not a shallow man, if he be a man capable of being penetrated by profound thought, will never answer the question by professing that creed of atheism which has been so lightly attributed to me."
Professor J. Tyndall.