Of mental action which must ever fling
A death-bolt at all faith, and this he saw
Was Transference. (14)
Turning to Note 14, we read thus—
“If any one has a curiosity to look into this subject, (does Mr. Dawes really think any one so great a fool?) and wishes to see how far the force of reasoning and analysis may carry him, independently of revelation, I would suggest (thank you, sir,) such inquiries as the following:
“Whether the first Philosophy, considered in relation to Physics, was first in time?
“How far our moral perceptions have been influenced by natural phenomena?
“How far our metaphysical notions of cause and effect are attributable to the transference of notions connected with logical language?”
And all this in a poem about Acus, a tailor!
Waldron prefers, unhappily, Geraldine to Alice, and Geraldine returns his love, exciting thus the deep indignation of the neglected fair one,