Our Maker, then, is distinct from, and superior to us.

One plan gives order to the universe; therefore, one mind originated it.

The Creator is over all his creatures.
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_Our consciousness confirms it._ If a blind god could not make a seeing man, a god destitute of the principle of self-consciousness (if such an abuse of language may be tolerated for a moment) could not impart to man the conviction, _I am_,--the ineradicable belief that I am not the world, nor any other person; much less, everybody; but that I am a person, possessed of powers of knowing, thinking, liking and disliking, judging, approving of right, and disapproving of wrong, and choosing and willing my conduct.

My Maker has at least as much common sense as he has given me.