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Show H8 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CAN TO IV. Give to proud Reason her comparing power, Warm every clime, and brighten every hour. In Life's first cradle, ere the dawn began Of young Society to polish man; The staff that propp'd him, and the bow that arm' d, The boat that bore him, and the shed that warm'd, 230 F1. re, ra1· me nt, r1o1 od ' the ploughshare, and the sword, Arose, VoLITION' at thy plastic word. " By thee instructed, NEWTON's eye sublime Mark' d the bright periods of revolving time; · Explored in Nature's scenes the effect and cause, And, charm' d, unravell' d all her latent laws. Delighte_d HERSCHEL with reflected light Pursues his radiant journey through the night ; Detects new guards, that roll their orbs afar In lucid ringlets round the Georgian star. 240 CANTO IV. OF GOOD AND EVIL. " Inspired by thee, with scientific wand Pleased ARCHIMEDEs mark'd the figured sand; Siezed with mechanic grasp the approaching decks, And shook the assailants from the inverted wrecks. -Then cried the Sage, with grand effects elate, And proud to save the Syracusian state; \Yhile crowds exulting shout their noisy mirth, ' Give where to stand, and I will move the earth. ' So SAVERY guided his explosive steam 149 In iron cells to raise the balanced beam; 250 The Giant-form its ponderous mass uprears, Descending nods and seems to shake th e spheres. M ark'd thefigur'd sand, 1. 242. The ancient orators seem to have spoken disrespectfu lly of the mechanic philosophers. Cicero mentioning Archimedes, calls him Homunculus e pulvere et radio, alluding to the cust01;n of drawing problems on the sand with a staff: So Savery guided, 1. 249. Captain Savery fi rst applied the pressure of the atmosphere to raise water in consequence of a vac uum previ? usly prod uced by the condensation of steam, though the lVfarquis of Worceser had before proposed to use for this purpose the expansive power of steam; see Botanic Garden, Vol. I. Canto I. 1. £53. Note. · / |