...Both are supremely dangerous and destructive. Their application means social chaos. If Omnipotence "Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly, Planets and suns run lawless through the sky," • there must be a "wreck of matter" and a "crash of worlds." And certainly, if laws can be arbitrarily...

...thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th'amazing whole; The least confusion but in one, not all That...through the sky, Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world; Heav'n's whole foundations to their centre nod,...

...leaves us with politics as an art of the impossible, and with ample reason for despair. 174 Morality Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit fly, Planets and Suns run lawless thro' the sky, Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on...