![[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-father-impressed-upon-me-from-the-first-that-the-manner-in-which-the-world.jpg)
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