A Mouse in a Cathedral
How can we tell? For some reason altogether beyond our conception — and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it, or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.
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Context: Summerlee disputes Challenger's view that the world was made for mankind.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter IV: A Diary of the Dying