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Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume
Such various forms and gave it wings to fly?
Has matter innate motion? then each atom,
asserting it's indisputable right.
To dance would form an universe of dust:
Has matter none? Then whence these glorious forms
And boundless flights from shapeless, and repos'd
Has matter more than motion?-has it thought,
Judgement and genius?- is it deeply learn'd
In mathematics? Has it fram'd such laws,
Which but to guess a Newton made immortal?-
If so, how can each sage atom laughs at me,
Who thinks a clod inferior to a man!
If art to form and counsel to conduct,
And that with greater far than human skill,
Resides not in each block - a Godhead reigns -
And if a God there is that God how great!"
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