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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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<strong>and</strong>''i6o The Energy <strong>of</strong> Nature Book Lcf nature i; artificial, as when a dancer moves ; for a .dancer refemhles th<strong>is</strong>artificial life <strong>of</strong> nature, forafnmch as art itfelf moves him, <strong>and</strong> fo moveshim as being fuch a life in him. And agreeably to th<strong>is</strong> conceit, <strong>the</strong> ancientmythologitls reprcfented <strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> univerfe by Fan playing upona pipe or harp, <strong>and</strong> being in love with <strong>the</strong> nymph Echo ; as if nature did,by a kind <strong>of</strong> filent melody, mike <strong>all</strong> <strong>the</strong> parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> univerfe every wheredance in meafure <strong>and</strong> proportion, itfelf being as it were in <strong>the</strong> mean timedelighted <strong>and</strong> ravifhed with <strong>the</strong> re-echoing <strong>of</strong> its own harmony. Habitsare faid to be an adventitious <strong>and</strong> acquired nature, <strong>and</strong> nature was be-•fore defined by <strong>the</strong> Scoicks ' to 'be s^ir, or a habit: fo that <strong>the</strong>re feems tobe no o<strong>the</strong>r difference between <strong>the</strong>fe two, than th<strong>is</strong>, that whereas <strong>the</strong> one <strong>is</strong>acquired by teaching, indufb-y <strong>and</strong> exercife ; <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, as was exprefled'by Hippocrates *, <strong>is</strong> aTrxi^iVTOi >^ eux iJi.a.hv

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