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fhouldft not doubt but the Motion of it is regu- 

 lated and diredled by Reafon and Art ; or when 

 thou conlidereft a Sun-dyal or Clock, thou 

 fhouldft underftand prefently, that the Hours 

 are fliewn by Art, and not by Chance ; and yet 

 imagine or believe, that the World, which com- 

 prehends all thefe Arts and Artificers, was made 

 without Counfel or Reafon ? If one fliould car- 

 ry into Scythia or Britain fuch a Sphere as our 

 Friend PqlJidofiitis lately made, each of whofe 

 Converfions did the fame Thing in the Sun, and 

 Mooriy and other five Planets, which we fee ef- 

 fefted every Night and Day in the Heavens, who 

 among thofe Barbarians would doubt that that 

 Sphere was compos'd by Reafon and Art? A 

 Wonder then it muft needs be, that there (hould 

 be any Man found fo ftupid and forfaken of Rea- 

 fon, as to pc^-fuade himfelf, that this mofl: beau- 

 tiful and adorn'd World, was, or could, be pro- 

 duced by the fortuitous Concourfe of Atoms. He 

 that can prevail with himfelf to believe this, I 

 do not fee why he may not as well admit, that 

 if there were made innumerable Figures of the 

 one and twenty Letters, in Gold, fuppofe, or 

 any other Metal, and thefe well {haken and 

 mixt together, and thrown down from fome 

 high Place to the Ground, they, when they light- 

 ed upon the Earth, would be fo difpos'd and 

 rank'd that a Man might fee and read in them 

 E?iniuss A?inah -, whereas it were a great Chance 

 if he fhould find one Verfe thereof among them 

 all : For if this Concourfe of Atoms could make a 

 whole World, why may it not fometimes make, 

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