"'Homo creatus est' means that man was created. We are inclined to turn our backs smilingly on such a statement, thinking naturally enough of the first chapter of Genesis. But it is really a psychological declaration of the first importance: does man feel himself to have been created or not? Do we feel that we have created ourselves or have we rather found ourselves? Most people feel the latter, one day we found ourselves and said "I" for the first time. But had that "I" been created or did it just happen? This is quite a different question and a very difficult one. Our feeling gives us no answer. We can only say that we gradually discovered ourselves with our gifts, our vices, our qualities and our imperfections. No proofs lie to our hand whether this conglomeration had a purpose, an intention, behind it, or whether it was the result of blind chance."
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