Plate X. Vol.III. facing p.35 some efit Passion every Age supply. See Efay on Mani EPIST LE III. ERE then we reft: "The Univerfal Cause "Acts to one end, but acts by various laws." In all the madness of fuperfluous health, The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth, 5 Look round our World; behold the chain of Love Combining all below and all above. See plaftic Nature working to this end, 10 WE are now come to the third epiftle of the Effay on Man, It having been fhewn, in explaining the origin, use, and end of the Paffions, in the second epiftle, that Man hath social as well; as felfish paffions, that doctrine naturally introduceth the third, which treats of Man as a SOCIAL animal; and connects it with the fecond, which confidered him as an INDIVIDUAL. VER. 12. Form'd and impell'd, etc.] To make Matter fo cohere as to fit it for the ufes intended by its Creator, a proper configuration of its infenfible parts, is as necessary as that quality VARIATIONS. VER. 1. in feveral Edit, in 4to. Learn, Dulness, learn!" The Universal Caufe, etc. See Matter next, with various life endu'd, Prefs to one centre ftill, the gen'ral Good. 15 20 See life diffolving vegetate again : 25 fo equally and univerfally conferred upon it, called Attraction, To express the first part of this thought, our Author fays form'd; and to exprefs the latter, impell'd. VER. 22. One all-extending, all-preferving Soul] Which, in the language of Sir Ifaac Newton, is, "Deus omnipræfens eft, non per virtutem folam, fed etiam per fubftantiam: nam "virtus fine substantia fubfiftere non poteft." Newt. Princ. fcbol. gen. fub fin. VIR. 23. Greatest with the leaft ;] As acting more ftrongly and immediately in beafts, whose inftinct is plainly an external reason; which made an old school-man fay, with great elegance, "Deus eft anima brutorum:" In this 'tis God directs Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly fpread the flow'ry lawn: Know, Nature's children fhall divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warm'd a bear. While Man exclaims, "See all things for 30 35 40 44 my use!" "See man for mine?" replies a pamper'd goofe: And just as short of reason He must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. VER. 45. See all things for my ufe !] On the contrary, the wife man hath said, The Lord hath made all things for himself, Prov. xvi. 4. VARIATIONS. After 46. in the former Editions, What care to tend, to lodge, to cram, to treat him! All this he knew; but not that 'twas to eat him, 50 Grant that the pow'rful ftill the weak controul; Be Man the Wit and Tyrant of the whole : Nature that Tyrant checks; He only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, flooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove! Admires the jay the infect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela fings? Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods, To beafts his pastures and to fish his floods; For fome his int'reft prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride: 60 All feed on one vain Patron, and enjoy Th' extenfive bleffing of his luxury, That very life his learned hunger craves, He faves from famine, from the favage faves; To each unthinking being, Heav'n a friend, 55 65 70 VER. 68. Than favour'd Man, etc.] Several of the ancients, and many of the Orientals fince, eftcemed those who were ftruck by lightning as facred perions, and the particular favourites of Deaven, |