Faith is not reason’s labour, but repose.

To faith, and virtue, why so backward, man?

From hence:—the present strongly strikes us all; 1430

The future, faintly: can we, then, be men?

If men, Lorenzo! the reverse is right.

Reason is man’s peculiar: Sense, the brute’s.

The present is the scanty realm of Sense;

The future, Reason’s empire unconfined:

On that expending all her godlike power,

She plans, provides, expatiates, triumphs, there;