PROFESSOR AND MAN'S FUTURE
“ We find strong reasons for believing that in spite of his physical insignificance man as an intelligent person is of extraordinarv importance in the cosmic scheme,” said Professor Compton, the Nobel Prize-winner, in an address at Yale bn the immortality of man, reported in the ‘ News-Chronicle.* “If we were to use our best judgment what would we say is the most important thing about a noble man? Would it be the strength of his body or the brilliance of his intellect? Should we not place first the beauty of his character? A man’s body is at its prime before middle life, and his intellect probably somewhat after middle life. But it takes a whole lifetime to build the character of a noble man. The exercise and discipline of youth, the struggles and failures and successes, the pains and pleasures of maturity, the loneliness and tranquility of age, these make up the fire through which he must pass to bring out the pure gold of his soul. Having been thus perfected, what shall Nature do with him ? Annihilate him? What infinite waste!”-
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Evening Star, Issue 21036, 25 February 1932, Page 7
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