If so, how each sage atom laughs at me,

Who think 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.—

Grant, then, invisible, eternal, Mind;

That granted, all is solved.—But, granting that,

Draw I not o’er me a still darker cloud?

Grant I not that which I can ne’er conceive?

A being without origin, or end!— 1490