One can mock death, but one cannot mock men in danger of death . . .Earlier, though, in ???Three Adepts of ???Pure??? Literature,??? Burke had quoted de Gourmont (who, he writes???in a lovely line??????never forgot that a man is of no more important in relation to the stars than a grasshopper???) saying ???Man is not at the pinnacle of nature; he is in nature, one of the units of life, and nothing