Yet know ye Sceptics, know, the Almighty mind
Who breath’d on man a portion of his fire,
Bad his free soul by earth nor time confin’d
To heav’n, to immortality aspire.
Nor shall the pile of hope his mercy rear’d,
By vain philosophy be e’er destroy’d;
Eternity! by all or wish’d or fear’d,
Shall be by all, or suffer’d or enjoy’d.
Mason.
It is still more singular that Dr. Beattie with all his professions of christianity, should not have been aware of the atheistical complexion of the following passage in his “Hermit.”