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Show 13B ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO IV. Call for the dead from Time's o'erwhelming main, And bid departed Sorrow live again. " Here ragged Avarice guards with bolted door His useless treasures from the starving poor; Loads the lorn hours with misery and care, And lives a beggar to enrich his heir. Unthinking crowds thy forms, Imposture, gull, A Saint in sackcloth, or a Wolf in wool. 100 produces thcpleasure oflifeor existence. This pleasure is nevertheless increased, when the system is stimulated illto rather stronger action than usual, as after a copious dinner, anti at the beginning of intoxication; and diminished, when it is only excited into somewhat less activity than usual, which is termed ennui, or irksomeness of life. Ideal itls, I. 94. The tooth-edge is an instance of bodily pain occasioned by association of ideas. Every one in his childhood has repeatedly bit a part of the glass or earthen v-essel, in which his food has been given him, and has thence had a disagreeable sensation in his teeth, attended. at the same time with a jarring sound: and ever after, when such a sound is accidentally produced, the disagreeable sensation of the teeth fol1ows by associat"ion of ideas; this is further .elucidated in Zoonomia, Vol. I. Sect. XVI. 10. Enrich his heir, l. 100. Cum furor baud dubius, cum sit manifesta phrenitis, Utlocuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato. Juv E.NAL • .A l¥olf in wool, 1. 102. A wolf in sheep's clothing. CANTO IV. OF GOOD AND EVIL. 139 While mad with foolish fame, or drunk with power, Ambition slays his thousands in an hour· ' Den1oniac Envy scowls with haggard mien, And blights the bloom of other's joys, unseen; Or wrathful Jealousy invades th~ grove, And turns to night meridian beams of Love [ " Here wide o'er earth impetuous waters sweep, And fields and forests rush in to the deep; 1 1 0 Or dread Volcano with explosion dire Involves the mountains in a flood of fire; Or yawning Earth with closing jaws inhumes U nwarned nations, living in their tombs; Or Famine seizes with her tiger-paw, And swallows millions with unsated maw. "There livid Pestilence in league with Dearth Walks forth malignant o'er the shuqdering earth, |