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Each moss,
Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
This scale of beings; holds a rank, which lost
Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
Which nature's self would rue.

— Benjamin Stillingfleet

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