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Almighty Being, Cause and support of all things, can I view These objects of my wonder: can I feel These fine sensations, and not think of Thee? Thou who dost through th’eternal round of time, Dost through th’ immensity of space exist Alone, shalt Thou excluded be From this Thy universe? Shall feeble man Think it beneath his proud philosophy To call for Thy assistance, and pretend To frame a world, who cannot frame a clod? Not to know Thee, is not to know ourselves— Is to know nothing—worth the care Of man’s exalted spirit.
Almighty Being, Cause and support of all things, can I view These objects of my wonder: can I feel These fine sensations, and not think of Thee? Thou who dost through th’eternal round of time, Dost through th’ immensity of space exist Alone, shalt Thou excluded be From this Thy universe? Shall feeble man Think it beneath his proud philosophy To call for Thy assistance, and pretend To frame a world, who cannot frame a clod? Not to know Thee, is not to know ourselves— Is to know nothing—worth the care Of man’s exalted spirit.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 346 · printed citation: Stillingfleet · subject: KNOWLEDGE
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