Even in common life, if I assign a cause for any event, is it any objection, PHILO, that I cannot assign the cause of that cause, and answer every new question which may incessantly be started?
And what philosophers could possibly submit to so rigid a rule?
philosophers, who confess ultimate causes to be totally unknown; and are sensible, that the most refined principles into which they trace the phenomena, are still to them as inexplicable as these phenomena themselves are to the vulgar.

The order and arrangement of nature, the curious adjustment of final causes, the plain use and intention of every part and organ; all these bespeak in the clearest language an intelligent cause or author.

The heavens and the earth join in the same testimony: The whole chorus of Nature raises one hymn to the praises of its Creator.

You alone, or almost alone, disturb this general harmony.

You start abstruse doubts, cavils, and objections: You ask me, what is the cause of this cause?
I know not; I care not; that concerns not me.