The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Continual dropping wears away a stone.