We may sometimes have wondered who first taught men the arts of writing and agriculture, and the use of fire and certain tools. Various names have been suggested, but the truth is that it was not a human being at all, but the sun. Yes, the sun was at the origin of these discoveries. You will perhaps object that that is impossible, since the sun is not endowed with intelligence; he has no brain to think with and no tongue to talk with. According to you, then, human beings have a monopoly on intelligence, and the one being that has made life on earth possible is not intelligent.

