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Show ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO III. 124 " O'er the thrill'd frame his words assuasive steal. And teach the selfish heart ·what others feel; 480 With sacred truth each erring thought control, Bind sex to sex, and n1ingle soul with soul; From heaven, . He cried, descends the moral plan, And gives Society to savage man. " High on yon scroll, inscribed o'er Nature's shrine, Live in bright characters the words divine. " IN LIFE's DISASTRous scENES TO oTHERS no, WHAT YOU WOUJ.,D WISH BY OTHERS DONE TO YOU. " -Winds l wide o'er earth the sacred law convey, Ye Nations, hear it I and ye Kings, obey! 490 High on yon sc1·oll, I. 485. The famous sentence of Socrates "Know thyself," so celebrated by writers of antiquity, and said by them to have descended from Heaven, however wise it may be, seems to be rather of a selfish nature; and the author of it might have added "Know also other people.~~ But the sacred maxims of the author of Christianity, "Do as you would be done Ly," and " Love your neighbour as yourself," inclu~le all our duties' of benevolence and morality; and, if sincerely oLeyed by all nations, woultl a thousandfold multiply the present happiness of mankind, CANTO III. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. 1.25 I • " Unbreathing wonder hush'd the adoring throng, Froze the broad eye, and chain' d the silent tongue; Mute was the wail of Want, and Misery's cry, And grateful Pity wiped her lucid eye; Peace \vith sweet voice the Seraph-form address'd, And Virtue clasp'd him to her throbbing breast '' END OF CANTO III. |