"'When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.' He sat musing for a little with
the phial in his hand, looking at the clear liquid
within. 'When I have written to this man and told
him I hold him criminally responsible for the
poisons which he circulates, we will have no more
trouble. But it may recur. Others may find a
better way. There is danger there–a very real
danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, the
material, the sensual, the worldly would all
prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would
not avoid the call to something higher. It would
be the survival of the least fit. What sort of
cesspool may not our poor world become?'" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man
Natural attempts to arrive at the supernatural only produce the unnatural. A man attempting to reverse his own curse only curses himself twice over. Nature does not merely take everything from us, it provides us with everything in the first place. We gain wisdom as we lose our hair, by growing older. We gain muscle as we lose our vigor, by hard work. We gain perspective as we lose our eye sight, by hindsight.
Those who survive by resisting nature will be the worst specimens the world produces. They won't be the creme of the crop rising to the top, but the stain at the bottom of the cup that is hard to remove.
Those who accept the world as God made it move on to a better world, while those who reject the world God made have their best days behind them.
Luke 9:24
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
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