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O.35-5

Like reflexions, swarming in variety and profusion, will incessantly nudge the Muser toward the idea of God;—at first, as a play of "fancy," yet as rendering many general phenomena intelligible. God, as the Creator of the three Universes, must be supposed Omnipotent, and consequently not to do anything for the sake of bringing something else to pass: He must be thoroughly satisfied with the Universes as they are. He alone can view them as one whole. He must be supposed to approve the principle of gradual growth, and of every incident of it in its relation to the whole, not because He who has created the laws of logic is Himself at all bound down to them, but because that is our only rational idea of approval.

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