“지구 주위를 영원히 도는 달에게 자의식이 부여된다면, 달은 단번에 내린 결심의 힘으로 스스로의 길을 가고 있다고 철저히 확신할 것입니다. 더 높은 통찰력과 더 완벽한 지능을 부여받은 존재가 인간과 그의 행동을 지켜보며 자신의 자유의지에 따라 행동한다는 인간의 착각에 대해 미소를 지었을 것입니다.

“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.”