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other views of offering to our apprehension an
object to be loved. Now the heurospudist
needs has an imperative need of finding in
nature an object to love. His science cannot
subsist without it. For science to him must be
worship in order not to fall down before
the feet of some idol of human workmanship.
Remember that the human race is but an
ephemeral thing. In a little while it will be
altogether done with and cast aside. Even
now it is merely dominant on one small
planet of one insignificant star, while
all that our sight embraces on a starry
night is to the universe far less than a
single cell of the brain is to the whole man.