A Few Thoughts on Light
Man has invented artificial light, he inferred it from natural light; he has in the same way invented artificial truths, inferring them from supreme truths.
The sun appears every day illuminating space to show us the heavens.
In Madrid the gas is lighted every night that we may see the earth.
Man is to God what a box of matches is to the sun.
Human pride can also write its Genesis.
It can begin like this—
“One day man said—‘Fiat lux,’ and there were matches.“
Henceforward a blaze of light which illumines us perfectly.
The light invented by men is worth more than the light created by God: let us see how.
A thousand sunbeams cost nothing; one box of matches costs a halfpenny.
”Hojas Sueltas.” José Selgas.