But God inspired Moses and the Prophets to write as they have
written. They were not to tell men that the first thing to be
learnt was how to be rich; nor how to be strong; nor even how to be
happy: but that the first thing to be learnt was that God created
the heaven and the earth.
And why first?
Because the first question which man asks--the question which shows
he is a man and not a brute--always has been, and always will be--
Where am I? How did I get into this world; and how did this world
get here likewise? And if man takes up with a wrong answer to that
question, then the man himself is certain to go wrong in all manner
of ways. For a lie can never do anything but harm, or breed
anything but harm; and lies do breed, as fast as the blight on the
trees, or the smut on the corn: only being not according to nature,
or the laws of God, they do not breed as natural things do, after
their kind: but, belonging to chaos, the kingdom of disorder and
misrule, they breed fresh lies unlike themselves, of all strange and
unexpected shapes; so that when a man takes up with one lie, there
is no saying what other lie he may not take up with beside.
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