Nay, possibly, if we would emancipate ourselves from vulgar notions, and raise our thoughts, as far as they would reach, to a closer contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming conception how MATTER might at first be made, and begin to exist, by the power of that eternal first Being: but to give beginning and being to a SPIRIT would be found a more inconceivable effect of omnipotent power.
Eta, nozio arruntekiko loturak hautsi eta geure pentsamenduak jaso ahala jasoko bagenitu gauzen kontenplazio sakonagora heldu arte, orduan agian gai izanen ginateke itxura batean halako pentsamendu ilun batez ulertzeko materia hasiera batean nola egin zen eta nola hasi zen existitzen, lehen izaki eternalaren ahalaren eraginez; baina espiritu bati hasiera eta existentzia ematea ahalguztidunaren efektu bururagaitzagoa dela ikusiko litzateke.