Part I. ifi the Creation.- 33 



Now Seeds in downward Motion muft decline, 

 Tho' vary little from th' exadleft Line ; 

 For did they dill move ftrait, they needs muft 



fall 

 Like Drops of Rain, diffolv'd and fcatter'd all. 

 For ever tumbling thro' the mighty Space, 

 And never join to make one fingle Mafs. 



>The fecond Motive they had to introduce this 

 gratuitous Declination, of Atoms, the fame Poet 

 gives us in thefe Verfes, Lib, 2. 



Sifemper motm conneBitur omnis^ 



Et vet ere exoritur femper novus 07^di?2e certo j 

 Nee declinajido faciimt primordia motiis 

 Principiiim qiwddam quod fat i feeder a rumpat^ 

 Ex infifiito ne caufam caufafequatur -, 

 Libra per terras unde hcec animantibus, extafy 

 Unde hac eji^ inqiiam^ fatis avolfa 'voluntas ? 



Befides, did all Things move in direcfl Line^ 



And ftill one Motion to another join 



In certain Order, and no Seeds decline. 



And make a Motion fit to diffipate 



The well-wrought Chains of Caufes and ftrong 



Fate ; 

 Whence comes that Freedom living Creatures 



find? 

 Whence comes the Will fo free, fo unconfin'd^ 

 Above the Power of Fate ? 



The Folly and Uiireafonablenefs of this ridi- 

 culous aod ungrounded Figment, I cannot bet- 



D ^ ter 



