Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY ASAPH
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WHAT is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou
visitsst him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honor. Thou modest him to have dominion over the
work of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen,
yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air; the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth thru the paths of. the seas. 0 Lolo Our Lord, how excellent
is thy Name in all the earth!-Ps. viii. 4-9.
Qfbvif-Ie# HE greatest study, and at the
same time
'P +I- the most important, is man; for in him re-
'P ii' sides that active principle, which, as the
*I* ii' generative power, produced all the social
&'¥"¥"*'k phenomena in the past and in the presenthis
history, his advance in Art, Science, Philosophy, Religion
Industry, Political and Social Institutions, as well as
his misery, his distress, his poverty, his deterioration, his
death, the fall of nations, and the disappearance of races.
To understand the social destiny of the race, the end for
which it was created, and placed upon the earth, and the
the future social changes, which inevitably must take
place, we must study man, not only from the standpoint
of his generative power, but also from the consideration
of his ability to control, to govern, and to utilize the
creative energies of his own being for use in good upon
the earth.
Please observe, that man's ideas are derived at times
from and thru the operation of the senses; at other times
from reason acquired thru experience, which created in
him knowledge of the consequences of his acts and from