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He made them out of (either) himself or what was not his. If the one, how could they be poor unless he too was poor, as maker or material? If the other, how could they be poor unless as made or in what they had been always? If poor from always, though, poor in respect to what they could have been if cut from other cloth, or poor in respect to what he would have had them be, or how? Not poor from their own substance (to their own substance), then, no matter how it was, or if so only as things fall from themselves where necessary elements fail. The problem, thus, for them, was come of him, or come of the failing elements. It was as though he had himself ever only been the failure of elements, at least to them--and, time deferring to time, thus came they to regard him.