A person who does not understand the affairs of the world thinks that it is the newly created cause that affects change in things and their transformation from one set to another. Actually, the cause is too weak and insignificant to bring about change or transformation in the essence of things. We perceive for instance, that a single grain of wheat produces three hundred ears of wheat, each of which bears thirty grains, so that a single grain produces ten thousand grains or nearly that number. Can anyone fail to recognize that the force inherent in the grain is insufficient to produce this amount? And so it is with other grains that are sown or planted. The same applies to the generation of a human being and of other living creatures from a drop of semen or the growth of a large fish from a tiny fish egg. pg 377