Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than mixture and dispersion.
From his personal reflections, this passage explores two fundamental views of the universe and their ethical consequences.
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But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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