But in the things which are held together by nature there is within, and there abides in them the power which made them; wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think, that, if thou dost live and act according to its will, everything in thee is in conformity to intelligence.
In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius explains that natural objects contain the power that created them, urging reverence and conformity to this intelligent force.
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