It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

[…]; an old blue jacket, that at one time had been a coat, looped over a red plush “singlet” of perhaps twenty or even forty years' wear : his almost hairless sconce bared to the sun, from which it had received an imperishable coating of tan, he was an object that few would pass without hailing with observations,[…] he wiped his shining sconce … and raised his visor […]

Superſtition is the less complainable

Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?