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If
I propose to ascertain the influence of one mote in a sunbeam upon its neighboring
mote, I cannot
accomplish my purpose
without first counting and weighing
all the atoms in the Universe
and defining the
precise positions
of all at one particular
moment.
If I venture
to displace, by
even the billionth
part of an inch, the
microscopical
speck of dust
which lies now
upon the point
of my finger,
what is the character of that
act upon which
I have adventured?
I have done a deed which shakes
the Moon in
her path, which causes
the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which
alters forever the
destiny of the multitudinous myriads of stars
that roll and
glow in the majestic presence of their Creator.
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