Just so it is with respect to the various systems and _systems of systems that compose the universe_.

As distant as they are, and as different as we may imagine them to be, they are all _tied_ together by relations and _connexions_, _gradations_, and _dependencies_." The verbal coincidence is here as marked as the coincidence in argument.

Warton refers to an eloquent passage in Shaftesbury, which contains a similar thought; but one can hardly doubt that Bolingbroke was in this case the immediate source.

A quaint passage a little farther on, in which Pope represents man as complaining because he has not "the strength of bulls or the fur of bears," may be traced with equal plausibility to Shaftesbury or to Sir Thomas Browne; but I have not noticed it in Bolingbroke.
One more passage will be sufficient.

Pope asks whether we are to demand the suspension of laws of nature whenever they might produce a mischievous result?
Is Etna to cease an eruption to spare a sage, or should "new motions be impressed upon sea and air" for the advantage of blameless Bethel?
When the loose mountain trembles from on high Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?
Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging-wall?
Chartres is Pope's typical villain.