Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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INTELLECTUAL MAN THE AWFUL SHOCK which ac- companies the mind's discovery that the universe is incomprehen- sible breaks some men; others it sanctifies. But left to the rest of mankind is the task of explaining human experience in rational terms. Some would call the pro- cess a search for truth, others an exposition of revelation. No mat- ter, for the work of man is the same in both: to examine experi- ence and attempt explanation; then to test the explanation, dis- carding the unsound and building on the sound. Thus, a Heraclitus will propose that fire underlies all creation; a Plato, ideal forms, and an Aquinas, essences. But no ex- planation has yet been entirely successful. Each, however, has been valuable, if only for serving as a point of departure whereby men may appreciate more fully the essence of life. But man's experience has been not only of the natural world, but of himself also; and he is of even greater incomprehensibility. Man knows only that he is at once a part of, yet somehow different from the rest of creation. He knows also that he will never understand himself without understanding his universe. — Nea ae ASS B a x a Ps 7 = + Someta es cea Se — os So By, ar PrP oS = al SS SX SSS ARS —— SSSR SS oS

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