What is man?
Alexander Pope explored this exquisite yet interminable question in his moving, poetic wit "Essay on Man."
The Psalms reads:
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. " (Psalm 8: 4-5)
Yet from the nineteenth century, a mad insistence on establish universal rules for human behavior and direction perverted man's proper use of the mind to devise systems of thought which negated his spiritual essence, an eternal entity which can never be measured or quantified.
Such is the progressive, mind-numbing Zeitgeist of the nineteenth century, which would prop up the human intellect in the face of tradition, faith, and culture, phenomena outside of human calculation, subject only to human analysis.