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from whom proceed all causes of causes. If you 

 prefer to call him providence, you will still be right; 

 2 for he it is by whose counsel provision is made for 

 the world that it may pursue its orderly course and 

 unfold the drama of its being. If you prefer to call 

 him nature, you will make no mistake ; for it is he 

 from whom all things derive being, and by whose 

 breath we live. If you prefer to call him the 

 world, you will not be in error ; for he is everything 

 that you can see, he is wholly infused in all his 

 parts, self-sustained through inherent power. The 

 Etruscans thought so too. They said bolts were 

 sent by Jove, just because nothing is performed 

 except by his power. 



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BUT, you ask, why does Jupiter pass over the guilty 

 and strike the innocent ? That is too big a question 

 to enter on here ; it shall have its own place and 

 time. Meantime I insist on this, that bolts are not 

 sent directly by Jupiter, but that all things are so 

 arranged that even what is not done by him is yet 

 not done without some plan, which plan is his. 

 The force of the bolts is a consequence of his per- 

 mission. For even though Jupiter does not make 

 them, he caused them to be made. He does not 

 superintend every detail ; but to all he gives the 

 signal, force, and cause. 



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THERE is another division of them made to which 

 I cannot agree. They are, according to the asser- 



