|
We live in and form part of a system of things of immense
diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a
matter of the deepest interest to all of us that we should form
just conceptions of the constitution of that system and of its
past history. With relation to this universe, man is, in extent,
little more than a mathematical point; in duration but a
fleeting shadow; he is a mere reed shaken in the winds of force.
Modified text originally written by Thomas Henry Huxley
|