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Since on this Subject I have already admitted several Quotations which have occurred to my Memory upon writing this Paper, I will conclude it with a little Persian Fable. A
of Water fell out of a Cloud into the Sea, and finding it self lost in such an Immensity of fluid Matter, broke out into the following Reflection: 'Alas! What an
insignificant
Creature am I in this prodigious Ocean of Waters; my Existence is of no
Concern
to the Universe, I am reduced to a Kind of Nothing, and am less then the least of the Works of God.'