We do not know what they mean in the larger frame of things, and to interpret the Lisbon earthquake as a divine punishment is naïve anthropocentrism.
In such particles concretions and dissolutions occur continuously; the materials within the bodies of living things form, dissolve, and form again — "that thereby this beautiful frame of things might be maintained".
For the need of God to sustain nature, see the letter to Richard Bentley (25 February 1693), in which Newton argues: "this frame of things could not always subsist without a divine power to conserve it"; cf. Newton 1953: 56.
"We showed great attitude and great commitment coming back from going 1-0 down and to go and be 3-1 witherSteven Steven getting a goal and getting back in the frame of things, made it a decent night for us.
"The Saudis are being framed, accused of things that they did not do," he said at a news conference at the time.
He did this through images packed with startling details, vivid tableaus, symbols and information that were often expanded on by eccentric, theme-matched frames made of things like branches, books and pill bottles.
Later, in the second edition of the Principia (1713), Newton firmly rejected such criticisms in a concluding General Scholium, writing that it was enough that the phenomena implied a gravitational attraction, as they did; but they did not so far indicate its cause, and it was both unnecessary and improper to frame hypotheses of things that were not implied by the phenomena.
Since it would be nearly impossible to make a strong, suitable frame out of things you find (like sticks), it may be better to find shelter in a cave, under trees or a rock formation, or in your car (if it's with you).
"[W]e presume too much of our own abilities," Boyle wrote, c. 1680, "if we imagine that the omniscient God can have no other Ends in the framing & managing of Things Corporeal, than such as we Men can discover" (Boyle MS 198, fol. 120, BP 7 116, BOA §3.6.3, p 267).
Walter is especially scathing about the way that our culture's antagonism towards women is being framed, of all things, as feminist.
