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You own a watch the invention of the mind,
Though for a single motion 'tis designed,
As well as that which is with greater thought
With various springs, for various motions
wrought.

BLACKMORE -The Creation. Bk. III. The
creation and the watch. HALLAM-Litera-
ture of Europe. II. 385, traces its origin to
CICERO De Natura Deorum. Found also
in HERBERT OF CHERBURY'S treatise De
Religione Gentilium. HALE-Primitive Orig-
ination of Mankind. BOLINGBROKE, in a
letter to PouILLY. PALEY used the illus-
tration, which he took from NIUWENTYT.
(See also VOLTAIRE)

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Moved the Creator in his holy rest
Through all eternity so late to build
In chaos, and, the work begun, how soon
Absolved.

MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 90.

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I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms. CXXXIX. 14.

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Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt
Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. RÜCKERT Die Sterbende Blume. St. 8.

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No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

SEELEY-Ecce Homo. Ch. XXIV.

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(See also HEBER under ARCHITECTURE)

When I consider everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment;
That this huge stage presenteth nought but
shows,

Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight.
SHAKESPEARE Sonnets. XV.

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Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. BERNARD SHAW-Man and Superman. Act I.

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Through knowledge we behold the world's creation,

How in his cradle first he fostered was;
And judge of Nature's cunning operation,
How things she formed of a formless mass.
SPENSER-Tears of the Muses. Urania. L. 499.

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Each moss,

Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rank which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which Nature's self would rue.
BENJAMIN STILLINGFLEET- Miscellaneous
Tracts relating to Natural History. P. 127.
(Ed. 1762)

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(See also WALLER)

One God, one law, one element,

And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.
TENNYSON-In Memoriam. Conclusion. Last

Stanza.

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