Man never less than man
Man undergoing birth, maturity, and decay is like the
beasts and vegetables, - subject to laws of decay. If
man were dust in his earliest stage of exist-
ence, we might admit the hypothesis that he
returns eventually to his primitive condition;
but man was never more nor less than man.
If man flickers out in death or springs from matter into
being, there must be an instant when God is without His
entire manifestation, - when there is no full reflection
of the infinite Mind.
