The Making of a Man

This philosophical work, written by James Wideman Lee, a Methodist priest, invites readers to contemplate what differentiates humans from other living things in nature. Lee argues that the unity of thought, the freedom of choice, the capacity for love, potential in the intellect, will, and heart of the first humans put them beyond other existing beings. In Lee's own words: “Men were at once the interpreter and the interpretation of all that had gone before.”