It would seem that this is the principle on which God acts with reference to both the material and the moral universe.

[that is, contrary to the divine order of the universe] in order to prevent harm, than it is to steal for the purpose of giving alms, except indeed in case of necessity when all things are common property

As this attribute is the foundation, so to speak, of the divine, so it is the foundation of the physical and moral order of the universe....

A lie has no place, even theoretically, in the universe, unless it be in some sphere where God has no cognizance and man has no individuality.

It would seem that the one all-dividing line in the universe, which never changes or varies, is the line between the true and the false, between the truth and a lie.

From the painting by Collier, National Portrait Gallery.] "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.

His universe, like Shelley's, is an incarnation of the spirit of love: "Love can tell, and love alone,

For such as winter is to a fig, such is every event which happens from the universe to the things which are taken away according to its nature.

Ought you not to demonstrate those things which make men happy, which make things go on for them in the way as they wish, and why we ought to blame no man, accuse no man, and acquiesce in the administration of the universe?

For he was not used to inquire when he should be considered to have done anything on behalf of the whole of things (the universe, or all the world), but he remembered that everything which is done comes from thence and is done on behalf of that country and is commanded by him who administers it.

what is going to perish of the things which are in the universe?

Happily for the existence of the universe, they do not.

We believed that His care was over all His works; that His providence watched perpetually over the universe.

The voice of Godthat solemn and terrible voicehad re-echoed through the whole universe; it had broken the solemn silence which then pervaded all nature.

" Or, to put it in another way, the Universe perceptible to us is only one of an infinity of Universes.

What was this secret that made words into a book, houses into cities, and restless and measurable stars into an unchanging and immeasurable universe?

The upper world had vanished: his universe had shrunk to the palm of a hand.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be,

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be,

Blake has visions, though clouded and imperfect, of the clashing of systems, the birth and death of universes, the origin and meaning of good and evil, the function and secret correspondences of spirits, of states, of emotions, of passions, and of senses, as well as of all forms in earth and sky and sea.

They would form two universes each living by itself, making no difference to each other, taking no account of each other, much as the universe of your day dreams takes no account of mine.

They form in short two unrelated universes,which is the reductio ad absurdum required.

He surveys in advance all the universes he might create, and by an act of what Leibnitz calls his antecedent will he chooses our actual world as the one in which the evil, unhappily necessary anyhow, is at its minimum.

He may find new systems, and forget them; he may discover fresh universes, and learn to despise them.

[Footnote B: Compare Emily Bronte's statement of the same, in the last verse she wrote: 'Though Earth and Man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.