who create it, or are We the Creator?’—it is that a creator who brings something into being must produce what he creates through his intent and will, and must find himself capable of producing it and bringing its actual being into existence, if he originates it, or of shaping and delineating it, if creation means shaping and determining its proportions.”
He said:
“Once this general principle is established, and we know that the child’s existence, with its constitution and form, is not subject to the father’s will, nor something he finds himself capable of producing, it follows that the created child is not the father’s work, whether through direct action or as an effect generated by his movements.”
He said:
“As for the point to which His words draw attention:
‘And in yourselves. Will you not then see?’
it is His calling them to reflect upon their own conditions, their passage from one state to another and from one constitution to another, and the wondrous shaping and arrangement of their very selves: the creation of their senses and the organs in which they reside, and the formation of each of their bodily members in a manner suited to its intended use—the hand for grasping, the foot for walking, and likewise their other limbs. They are also to reflect upon the new occurrences within themselves that previously did not exist, and upon the loss of things they would prefer to retain.
“They know that a form must have someone who gives it form, and that, according to their reason, the arrangement of a house, writing, and the various kinds of woven fabrics and manufactured objects must have a maker who puts them together. They also know that a change in a thing’s attributes, despite the possibility of its remaining as described, must have an agent who brings about its transition and changes it. From this they must recognize that the shaping of a human being and his changes through the conditions mentioned have still greater reason to depend upon One who gives him form and who moves and changes him from one constitution to another, and from one state to