Of Latin parentage is he derived,
And of a virtue ne'er excelled in Rome,
Who tarries in Ausonia. The last two
Seem less distinguishable by their looks
Than as their nations' idiosyncrasies
Appear in each. Associations read

In their calm aspect, as from history's page:
Each great example set to future times;
Old legendary story; every deed

Done by illustrious heroes; and all scenes
Grand, honourable, daring, or sublime,
Related in their Annals, like bright fires,
Kindle within them, and in their minds grow
Familiar as their own biography."

From dawn in the new world till the day broke
O'er Britain, the bright Phantasm shifting slow
Had placed my view thus high while the round

earth

Below me made its rapid way. Then oped
The Dream's bright cloud, and parting let appear
The radiant Goddess Nature who to me

Said: 66
Worshipper! know I it was that set
Those seventy of my Magnates in thy view:
They have a birth-place obvious to the stroke
Of circumstances, and the tender buds
Their genius puts forth, easily are crushed.
Thy mind took notice of my multitudes

In error, miserable, lost, destroyed, (3)
Who, round this globe inhabit! There were fools
Who, ignorant of their best interests,

And thinking by misdoings to advance

Their fortunes, sinned against me. Others sinned
On provocation. But the Seventy

Were wise and also just. I have made them
The others' Governors: not by the sword
But through Opinion's ratifying act

Going with their voices. Man in council wants
What mind the bounteous Heavens have ordained
To do him highest service. Thus he errs
Far into evil ways, reverses doom
Which wills his happiness, and sets up woe!
Go and subdue it! Let this conference
A loud voice kindle calling the great rolls
Of nature, till my missing great ones hear
The invitation; leave the villages

For action in the service of their race;
And are seen passing from obscurity

To take their places at the head of men !—

Ah well would they become and keep the heights!"

NOTE.

(3) Lamennais, having the poorer classes in his eye, draws this picture of Humanity, and treats

as follows, the subject of its acheiving its own deliverance: whilst passing on this earth, as we all pass, poor travellers of a day, I have heard deep, 'heavy groans: I have looked up, and my eyes have witnessed unheard of sufferings, woes without number. Pale, ill, faint, clad in mourning o'er-sprinkled with spots of blood, Humanity stood before me, and I asked myself: Is this then, Man? Is this he as the Deity made him? And my soul was profoundly moved: the doubt filled me with anguish.

But after a time I understood that these sufferings, and these woes, were not of God, from whom all good emanates, and from whom can nothing emanate but what is good; but the work of man's self, buried in his ignorance, and corrupt in his passions; and I entertained a hope, and I had faith in the future destinies of human kind. Its destinies will be changed, when man wills the change, and he will do so as soon as to the lively sense of his malady there shall be joined the clear understanding of the remedy which can work its cure.

IV.

THE ARGUMENT.

Other great harbingers and promoters of organic changes in the moral, social, and political world harangue the Assembly of the Students. The substance of their addresses is very briefly given. Enlightened conceptions of Duty. A large debt of gratitude is due to the posterity of the Ancients. The auditory is pressed to make a just return to their descendants whose works led to the revival of learning in Enrope. Argument of reciprocity on these heads. Put in mind of the shining example of Galilei, etc. who sacrificed all at the altars of Philosophy and Truth, the meeting is again exhorted to adopt the conduct of its great teachers by extending the advantages conferred on it to all members of the great family of man.

His influence using with his many friends,
So Shakspeare perorated; following whom
Canova, Handel, Rafael, Angelo;

Camoëns, Dante, Milton, Pope, Corneille;
The Pitts, Burke, Canning, Newton; d'Alembert,
Galvani, Kepler, Berkeley, Cuvier,

Lavoisier, Harvey, Galilei, La Place;

A reverend bead-roll; each in turn arose
And pressed his followers to bruit forth all

The truth these had imparted. Their harangues

At large you have oft read; this is their sum: Truth's deep immeasurable ocean flows

Toward these her western shores and leaves dry land

The ancients' beds. Behold our countries are
The centre of her crystal depths. What help
Can be lent those who draw the noxious air
Of the receded waters? In your grasp
The lever trembles, forged by us, to turn
And equalize this ocean on all coasts,
And with the refluent wave renew its breeze,
And airs restorative. These realms incur
A grave responsibility to heaven

For knowledge, given to an all-wise end:-
Our pure religion turning wholly on
And inculcating, transcendental love

To God and Man (4) attaches on these gifts,
And with each Talent debits our account.
O Christians, to the common Father's will
Who dedicate your services and lives,

Take these high grounds! And hear, O friendly hear

The cries of nature, ye whose holiness

Doth spring from moral instincts! To mankind From ages out of mind a large arrear,

A debt incalculable has accrued

Against us; all are debtors! Who can tell