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(1) Cleanthes feels himself akin to the divine, and therefore worthy to hold communion with it; (2) he expresses his admiration for, and submission to, the divine order of the world; (3) he recognizes that the moral evil in the world is the result not of fate but of man’s freewill; (4) he prays God to free human souls from ignorance; and (5) closes with an apostrophe in praise of God's law.