MAN AND THE UNIVERSE.
I was struck very forcibly with Mr. H. E. Mulvihill's letter, called "Man's destiny," where it says inan is Nature's objective, and he is greater than the universe. One of the supposed wisest men of the past, Marcus Aurelius, quoted in Professor James' text book of psychology, is said to have exclaimed, "Oh universe, I wish all thou wishest," realising that he was only one of millions of human entities, and a vast lot of other things on this earth, and that the whole was greater than its very minute part. No doubt finite man is Nature's objective as far as intelligence is concerned; but then he cannot be greater than the universe, because he is only part of it, and did .not create it and himself. He can only be part of the "universal mind," if such a term can be used, and not the whole of the universal mind or the universe. J. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 285, 1 December 1932, Page 23
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