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He showed me a little thing the size of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with the eye of my understanding, and thought: what may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it could last, for it seemed so little that it might suddenly have fallen to nought. And I was answered in my understanding; it lasteth and ever so small because God loveth it. And so the world hath its existence by the love of God.