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Rh with one View and Design, one Scheme and Intention, which are carried on from the Beginning to the End all along Uniform and Consistent with themselves. Some, my Lord, have argued the World was made by a wise Being, and not jumbled together by Chance from the very Absurdity of such a Supposition; and they have illustrated their Argument from the Impossibility, that such a Poem, as Homers, and Virgils should rise in such beautiful Order out of Millions of Letters eternally shaken together; but this Argument is half spoiled, if we allow, that the Poems of Homer, Rh