Man
Shakspeare’s Eulogy, just as He Penned It—Emerson—A Columbus of the Skies—Carlyle’s Panegyric—Whately—Man’s Faults—Horace Man and Pascal—The Poet Cowley and Boileau—Fallacy of their Scoldings as Applied to all Humankind—What Is Man?—Plato’s Answer—Addison’s Answer—Burke’s Answer—Adam Smith’s Answer—Buffon’s Failure to Make a Satisfactory Answer—Plutarch’s Answer—“The Proper Study of Mankind is Man”—Henry Giles and John Ruskin—The Wonderful Instrument Called the Hand—The Violin Slave—Man’s Opportunities—What God has Said of His Children—The Beautiful Language in Which It is Written—Nobility of Our Destiny—A Stinging Epigram.