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If life is but gas, as some "savants" say, / Or caused by some general harmony, / Or principle inherent in the blood, / Or blood is life itself, as Hunter prov'd, / What matters it? Doctors may disagree / On subjects which concern not you or me.
Most foolish things wise men have oft conceived; / More foolish should we seem if we believed / Their theories; for instance, they did plan / A lofty tower, thus to enable man / To clamber into Heaven. This "Babel" / Seems to us unreal as a fable.