No other epoch has accumulated so great and so varied a store of knowledge concerning man as the present one. No other epoch has succeeded in presenting its knowledge of man so forcibly and so captivatingly as ours, and no other has succeeded in making this knowledge so quickly and easily accessible. But also, no epoch is less sure of its knowledge of what man is than the present one. In no other epoch has man appeared so mysterious as in ours.
- Martin Heidegger, (1962, p. 206)
And that was before the internet.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Smuts (1926) was in agreement with the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, whose book A Critique of Pure Reason he studied in great depth while fighting in the Boer War, that proof of a transcendent influence or being cannot be found in studying nature (as natural theology suggests), and suggests that such belief “must rest on quite different grounds” (p. 342).
