ARGUMENT of the SECOND BOOK. Reflections fuggefted by the conclufion of the former book.— Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in forrow. - Prodigies enumerated.-Sicilian earthquakes-Man rendered obnoxious to thefe calamities by fin.-God the agent in them.-The philofophy that stops at fecondary caufes,reproved.-Our own late mifcarriages accounted for-Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau-But the pulpit, not fatire, the proper engine of reformation.-The Reverend Advertiser of engraved fermons.-Petit-maître parfon.-The good preacher.-Picture of a theatrical clerical coxcomb.Story-tellers and jefters in the pulpit reproved.-Apoftrophe to popular applaufe.-Retailers of ancient philofophy expoftulated with.-Sum of the whole ·Effects of facerdotal mifmanagement on the laity.—Their folly and extravagance.—The mischiefs of profufion.-Profufion itself, with all its confequent evils, afcribed, as to its principal caufe, to the want of difcipline in the Universities. matter. ОH for a lodge in fome vaft wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of fhade, Where rumour of oppreffion and deceit, Of unfuccessful or fuccefsful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. It does not feel for man; the natʼral bond Of brotherhood is fever'd as the flax That falls afunder at the touch of fire. 4 He He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth 5 No: No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Juft eftimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the flave And wear the bonds, than faften them on him. Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations, in a world that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And |