Hail, human liberty! There is no God—
Yet, why? On either scheme that knot subsists;
Subsist it must, in God, or human race;
If in the last, how many knots beside,
Indissoluble all?—Why choose it there,
Where, chosen, still subsist ten thousand more?
Reject it, where, that chosen, all the rest
Dispersed, leave reason’s whole horizon clear?
This is not reason’s dictate; Reason says,
Close with the side where one grain turns the scale;— 1500