"Can you tell me, my pastor, what part of God's likeness clings to a man longest and closest and best? No? Then I will tell you. It is the love of employment. God in heaven must create Himself a universe to work on and love. And now we sons of Adam, the sons of God, cannot rest without our mundus peculiaris of some sort -- our world subjective, as Doctor Musophilus has it. But we can create too, and make our little sphere look as large as a universe."

MS. Novel. 1844.