Chapter CXX

He exults in the victory of a higher faith. We are not "magnetic mockeries"--simply material "brain"--"casts in clay"--to perish as soon as the galvanic battery ceases to act,

"not in vain,
Like Paul with beasts, I fought with Death."

Let Science prove the contrary, even that we only exist for this life, and I won't stay here. And Science herself would then be valueless, since she had only taught us our nothingness.

Let "the wiser man" of the future

"up from childhood shape
His action like the greater ape,
But I was born to other things."

This is spoken ironically, and is a strong protest against materialism, but _not against evolution_.[83] Nevertheless, the gorilla is not our grandfather!