The Mystery of Man

After studying Man for forty years, the great scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel found Man to be a mystery so confusing that he wrote a book, published in 1935, titled Man the Unknown, in which he flatly declared, ''In fact, our ignorance (of Man) is profound; (p.4) On the very first page of this book, he began with this statement; Those who investigate the phenomena of Life are as if lost in an inextricable jungle, in the midst of a magic forest, whose countless trees unceasingly change their place and their shape. These investigators are crushed by a mass of facts which they can describe but are incapable of defining in algebraic equations; (Ibid, p. 1) Professor Hilton Hotema