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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: the existing state of things more as a material fact than as a phase
in a gradual process of development, he regards humanity as but a
small part of the great natural world, instead of considering it the
crowning glory of the whole. He recognizes man merely as a fraction
of the universe,--one might almost say as a vulgar fraction of it,
considering the low regard in which he is held,--and accords him his
proportionate share of attention, and no more.
In his thought, nature is not accessory to man. Worthy M. Perichon,
of prosaic, not to say philistinic fame, had, as we remember, his
travels immortalized in a painting where a colossal Perichon in
front almost completely eclipsed a tiny Mont Blanc behind. A Far
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