Our soul would not have struggled with our senses,
And void of freedom what would virtue be?
Pulling, from Lamartine.
For what is freedom, but the unfettered use
Of all the powers which God for use had given?
But chiefly this, Him first, Him last to view
Through meaner powers and secondary things
Effulgent, as through clouds that veil His blaze.
Coleridge.
Man (ingenious to contrive his woe,