Cannot subsist, nor confidence, nor peace.

Thus, duties rising out of good possest

And prudent caution needful to avert

Impending evil, equally require

That the whole people should be taught and trained.[851]

So shall licentiousness and black resolve

Be rooted out, and virtuous habits take

Their place; and genuine piety descend,

Like[852] an inheritance, from age to age.

"With such foundations laid, avaunt the fear