Chapter III: Spiritual or Moral Development (4)

“Two things,” said Immanuel Kant, “fill me with awe: the starry
heavens and the sense of moral responsibility in man.” And in his
hours of health and strength and sanity, when the stroke of action
has ceased and the pause of reflection has set in, the scientific
investigator finds himself overshadowed by the same awe. Breaking
contact with the hampering details of earth, it associates him with
a power which gives fulness and tone to his existence, but which he
can neither analyze nor comprehend.

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