"What is man in this boundless setting of sublime splendor? I answer you: Potentially now, actually to be, he is greater and grander, more precious according to the arithmetic of God, than all the planets and suns of space. For him were they created; they are the handiwork of God; man is His son! In this world man is given dominion over a few things; it is his privilege to achieve supremacy over many things."'The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork' (Psalms 19:1). Incomprehensibly grand as are the physical creations of the earth and space, they have been brought into existence as means to an end, necessary to the realization of the supreme purpose, which in the words of the Creator is thus declared:
"'For behold, this is my work and my glory--to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man'" (Pearl of Great Price, page 4).
-James E. Talmage, "The Earth and Man"
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