But is not that subtly true?
Yes, yes; Praxilla is right! We fast, we mortify ourselves--I have felt it all myself--to partake of divinity.
We almost perish of hunger and thirst, when we might be so happy if only we would be satisfied with apples and pears! No man has ever yet succeeded in the great effort; those who would be truly happy must be content with small things.

That is what makes children so happy.

Apples and pears! Well, everything will be at an end for me ere long--even those.

But if the great First Cause spares himself in the universal crash, there is still the grand idea of Apples and Pears; and who knows but that it may please Him, when this world is destroyed, to frame another to come after it.

Will He then once more embody the ideas of Man--and Apples and Pears?
It would be plagiarism from himself.