One thought's first birth-place, and its natal

hour?

Are you enlightened? Others found for you The lights that shine within your minds. Your sires

Were they religious, honorable, just,

Benevolent? Was their minds' scope enlarged?
The Ancients' master-pieces with fine oil
Fed the lamp of the Gothic mind, and kept
Alive its thinking faculties; so saved
All Europe ready at the time to sink
As Asia barbarous, as Afric low!
Now even studying their works we fill

Our hearts with virtue and imbue our minds With light. Their young compatriots do this day (Whose title own thrice lovely Gratitude!)

By us appear, and at this bar demand
The debt these noble benefits avouch,-
Participation in your blessings. Hear

Their words: "What has attainted our pure blood
Whose fathers sang the Iliad's songs, and heard
Herodotus recite his histories

And learned of Hesiod virtue. Strymon's shores Inherit from the Stagirite a claim

Upon your gratitude; and Egypt comes

To have her lore back, and ten thousand clans Ask theirs on the Chaldean plains acquired!"

Thus from afar the barbarous spirits sue

For their fair heritage! Do they propound
A righteous suit? Are all Truth's precious stores
Given to us only? Or do we enjoy
What is the subject of a sacred trust
For us and others? Oh let us no more
Immure within our solitary breasts
The stirring voice of genius, science, prime
Antagonist of our mind's cataracts,
And the calm monitor, philosophy!

Our lives' whole business, our true glory lies
In uttering Knowledge with great labour won
In the abysms of nature. Emulate

Your teachers. What to your enlightenment
Truth's pioneers recount, light-yielding facts,
By us as freely as profusely showered
Upon you, to your fellows care to give.
To Conscience, and no other voice, is due
Obedience absolute: make your free will
Obsequious to its holy sanctions. Go,
Enlightened go, mankind enlightening. Lo
The earth entire, all its well-varied scenes,
Its beautifying cities, joyous vales,
Still forests, ancient glades, the open downs,
Their hill-tops echoing the valley's voice,
Brown heaths inspiriting, and the seas' high

coasts,

Form your arena. Boldly enter it!

See everywhere the soft and verdant turf
Under the gorgeous and o'er-gilding sun

And white clouds flying shapely, longs to feel The trampling of your steel-hoofed horse! Then march,

With irresistible invasion pour

Your numbers on the countries! fill the world!

NOTE.

(4) In his tract in praise of Knowledge Lord Bacon gives the opinion subjoined:-This is a thing which I cannot tell whether I may so plainly speak as truly conceive, that as all Knowledge appears to be a plant of God's own planting, so it may seem the spreading and flourishing, or at least the bearing and fructifying of this plant, by a Providence of God, nay, not only by a general Providence, but by a special prophecy, was appointed to this autumn of the world: for to my understanding, it is not violent to the letter, and safe now after the event, to interpret that place in the prophecy of Daniel, where, speaking of the latter times, it is said.

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Many shall run to and fro and Science shall be

increased," as if the opening of the world by

navigation and commerce, and the further discovery of Knowledge, should meet in one time or age.

Whether the words, Knowledge shall be increased, warrant the liberal interpretation Lord Bacon gives them or not, it is submitted to those who are versed in the prophecies of the Old Testament, whether there would be error in reading the following Scriptures as reciprocally illustrative of and as interpreting one another?

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.-Daniel xii. 4.

I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom, and behind him were there red horses, speckled and white. Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me, said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the

earth sitteth still, and is at rest.—Zechariah i. 8, 9, 10, 11.

And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. Then said I what came these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them.-Ib. i. 20.

And I turned, and lift up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses, and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. Then I answered, and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord? And the angel answered, and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country, and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth towards the south country. And the bay went forth, and sought to go, that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get ye hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro