Write a paragraph which (a) identifies the author of the pas…

Write а pаrаgraph which (a) identifies the authоr оf the passage, and (b) explains its cоntext and significance.  “The Brahmins assert that the world arose from an infinite spider, who spun this whole complicated mass from his bowels, and annihilates afterwards the whole or any part of it, by absorbing it again and resolving it into his own essence. Here is a species of cosmogony which appears to us ridiculous because a spider is a little contemptible animal whose operations we are never likely to take for a model of the whole universe. But still here is a new species of analogy, even in our globe. And were there a planet wholly inhabited by spiders (which is very possible), this inference would there appear as natural and irrefragable as that which in our planet ascribes the origin of all things to design and intelligence… Why an orderly system may not be spun from the belly as well as the brain, it will be difficult for him to give a satisfactory reason”.