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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 2 (search)
who love to look on and consider what is the world, who governs it. Has it no governor?Sunt In Fortunae qui casibus omnnia ponunt, Et mundum credunt nullo rectore moveri. Juvenal, xiii. 86. And how is it possible that a city or a family cannot continue to exist, not even the shortest time without an administrator and guardian, and that so great and beautiful a system should be administered with such order and yet without a purpose and by chance?From the fact that man has some intelligence Voltaire concludes that we must admit that there is a greater intelligence. (Letter to Mde. Necker. Vol. 67, ed. Kehl. p. 278.) There is then an administrator. What kind of administrator and how does he govern? And who are we, who were produced by him, and for what purpose? Have we some connexion with him and some relation towards him, or none? This is the way in which these few are affected, and then they apply themselves only to this one thing, to examine the meeting and then to go away. What then