The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.
The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is __ody_ and that which is not __ody_ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
Leviathan
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The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is __ody_ and that which is not __ody_ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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