Mans Place in the Kosmos (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mans̓ Place in the Kosmos

"God of the granite and the rose
The molecule and the morning star."

It is not my purpose to preface my book with a multiplication of words which are very good foods in their ways and places, but of little use - like all other foods - where used too much.

There be some, perhaps, that may be shocked when they see in the book a deliberate defence of such characters as Pharaoh and even Judas, and little did I suppose, when more than a half century ago, as a student at college, I provoked the indignation of the dear old president by putting him in a cul de sac in the class room for defending both of them before the class - I little thought at that time that I should ever be called upon more than a half century away to utter a word in their behalf.

But so it is - has happened the materialist would say - for this wonderful "whirligig of time" doth oft bring in some very "strange revenges!"

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