What is Man?

One discovery was a time-released revelation to me. On my way to classes each week, I had been passing Emerson Hall, the building that houses the philosophy department at Harvard. The enormous inscription above the front doors and columns of Emerson reads, “WHAT IS MAN.” To me; it seemed an appropriate facade-for & philosophy building.

Then one afternoon I happened to look up at the same moment that a heavy wind blew. The branches of a tree shifted to reveal that there was more to the inscription. The entire inscription reads, “WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM ”. It is a verse from the Bible, the awed rhetorical question of King David in Psalm 8:4. And it is the most appropriate facade for any building because the only way to accurately view humanity is through God’s eyes.