An ancient philosopher once said: "He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a
brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone is a man among
brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy, is a God among men."

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. He
whose mind is enslaved to his bestial instincts is philosophically not superior to the brute-, he
whose rational faculties ponder human affairs is a man; and he whose intellect is elevated to the
consideration of divine realities is already a demigod, for his being partakes of the luminosity
with which his reason has brought him into proximity.