Either everything is a confused gathering and scattering of atoms, or else it is all a great unity and design. If the former, why am I so eager to go on living in such a swirling chaos? Why should I care about anything but how I will finally “return to the soil”?15 and why am I disturbed? For whatever I do, this scattering will come upon me as well. But if it is the other alternative, then I am reverent, I am calm; I place my trust in that which governs all things.
