Such and the like _Natural_ Causes have _Storms_ and _Tempests_; for as to the Question of Divine Power, whether or no Calamities of this kind do not sometimes, by the Anger of Heaven, happen out of the Course of Nature, it is not my Business to Dispute, nor would I by any means indeavour to absolve Mens Minds from the Bands of Religion. For although we must allow all the Parts of the Machine of this World to be framed and moved by Established Laws, and that the same Disposition of its Fabrick, which is most beneficial to the Whole, must of necessity, in some few Places now and then occasion Hurts and Mischiefs; it is however most highly reasonable, that we should yield to the Supreme Creator an absolute Power over all his Works; Concluding withal, that it was perhaps agreeable to Divine Wisdom, to order the Make of the World after such a manner as might sometimes bring Mischiefs and Calamities upon Mankind, whom it was necessary by the Frights of _Storms_, _Thunder_ and _Lightning_ to keep in a continual Sence of their Duty. [52] _Vid._ Philos. Transact. N 289. [53] _Del_ Tevere, lib. 3. p. 228. [54] Pag. 97. _The End._ End of Project Gutenberg's Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1, by Edmond Halley