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But at least he tried. Authors since then seem to have avoided the subject like the plague, often tackling the respective roles of men and women in society but seldom asking deeper questions about what it means to be human. When the psalmist asked, \"What is man?\" (Psalm 8 v.4) he was, I think, seeking an altogether more profound answer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAvoidance of the subject is all the more strange because there has never been a time like our own when curiosity about human origins and destiny has been greater, or the answers on offer more hotly disputed. It's a safe bet that any attempt to give the \"big picture\" on the origin, nature and specialness of mankind will be contentious --which might explain why writers have generally fought shy of it. 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