[173] So in Thomson's Hymn:—
"Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love.
Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm;
Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles;
And every sense, and every heart, is joy."
[ai] "The idea of God, beyond all question or comparison, is the one great seminal principle; inasmuch as it combines and comprehends all the faculties of our nature, converging in it as their common centre; brings the reason to sanction the aspirations of the imagination; impregnates law with the vitality and attractiveness of the affections; and establishes the natural legitimate subordination of the body to the will, and of both to the vis logica or reason, by involving the necessary and entire dependence of the created on the creator." Guesses at Truth. 1st Ed., pp. 122, 3.
[aj] Perhaps every cynic delighting in those records should be asked to define what he means by Savagery. Of savages there are evidently many sorts, e. g.:—
(1) The children of our race;—a condition not beautiful, yet not without hope.
(2) Semi-civilized tribes, generally addicted to "fire-water" and other vices of civilization, without possession of its better things.
(3) Barbarian princedoms, grown decrepit by reason of wars, caste domination, or a sensual and effete culture.