I think one can, and so evidently does the evolutionist, or he would not talk about evolution.

And the root phrase for all Christian theism was this, that God was a creator, as an artist is a creator.

A poet is so separate from his poem that he himself speaks of it as a little thing he has "thrown off." Even in giving it forth he has flung it away.

This principle that all creation and procreation is a breaking off is at least as consistent through the cosmos as the evolutionary principle that all growth is a branching out.

A woman loses a child even in having a child.