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Chap. 16. never sufficiently) wonder at; this World which hath been inhabited this Five thousand and Five hundred years, doth now grow old, and that we may again applaud, the old exploded Fable of Anaxarchus; there arise now elsewhere, and are born new Men, and a new World. O the wonderful and incomprehensible Law of Necessity! All things turn about in this Fatal Circle of begining and ending: and there may be something in this whole frame that is long liv'd; but nothing that is Eternal. Lift up your Eyes; and look round with me (for I am not willing as yet to desist) and contemplate the alternate courses of humane affaires; not unlike the Ebbings and Flowings of the Sea. Thou shalt arise; and thou fall: thou shalt command, and thou serve; be thou obscure and thou glorious; and let this round of things hastening into themselves, whirle about, Rh