John Stuart Mill gives us a wonderful contrast between man’s
brief day and the enduring ages of Neptune, yet Neptune is a
frozen clod, whirling on in eternal ice and darkness. A little
ball of ice can not laugh nor love nor sing nor curse nor faint
nor die; neither can a big ball of ice named Neptune. It is
man alone who is great, as the regent under God. The contrast
between the insignificance of man and the greatness of nature is
based on the fallacy that bulk is greatness. The truth is that
bulk is bulk, and concerns rocks and clods. Size is not power.
(Text.)--N. D. HILLIS.
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=Skill=--See HEADWORK.
=Skill by Experience=--See PRECAUTIONS.
=Skill Solving a Problem=--See CHARACTER CONDITIONED BY
THE PHYSICAL.