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men, the sea, bathing machines, porridge, jam, uncles and aunts—of trees and jam (for example) how—and of uncles and aunts (for example) why? He takes an amazing interest in God as the inventor and patentee of such things. “Did he make the elephant, Mummy?” “Yes, dear.” “And the flea?” “Yes, dear.” “Niggling little job, that.” And why should anyone omnipotently free to make a mud-pie have made Uncle John instead?
Above all, seeing that “the world is so full of a number of things”—having grown tired, for example, of trying to count the buttercups in the near meadow—he declines the idea of a single Demiurge turning out all these marvels from one great lonely laboratory. For that, besides being unthinkable, is not at all how things happen in real life, down27
