Did they at any moment cease to be;
And their peculiar likeness at all times
Do they retain, by the same principles.
B. Yet chaos is asserted to have been
The first existent Deity.
A. How can that be?
For ’tis impossible that we should find
Any first principle arise from anything.
B. Is there then no first principle at all?
A. Nor second either in the things we speak of;