Who can believe that all these mighty works Have grown, unaided by the hand of God, From small beginnings? that the law is blind by which the world was made? (Marcus Manilius)

Who can believe that all these mighty works Have grown, unaided by the hand of God, From small beginnings? that the law is blind by which the world was made?

Marcus Manilius

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