ARGUMENT of the SECOND BOOK. Reflections fuggefted by the conclufion of the former book.Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in forrow. - Prodigies enumerated.-Sicilian earthquakes-Man rendered obnoxious to thefe calamities by fin. - God the agent in them.-The philofophy that stops at Secondary caufes, reproved.-Our own late mifcarriages accounted for-Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau-But the pulpit, not fatire, the proper engine of reformation.-The Reverend Advertiser of engraved fermons - Petit-maître parfon. The good preacher.-Picture of a theatrical clerical coxcomb.Story-tellers and jefters in the pulpit reproved. - ApoStrophe to popular applaufe. Retailers of ancient applaufe.Retailers philofophy expoftulated with.-Sum of the whole matter.-Effects of facerdotal mifmanagement on the laity.—Their folly and extravagance. -The mifchiefs of profufion.- Profufion itself, with all its confequent evils, afcribed, as to its principal caufe, to the want of difcipline in the Universities. OH for a lodge in fome vaft wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of fhade, Where rumour of oppreffion and deceit, Of unfuccefsful or fuccefsful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My foul is fick with ev'ry day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, Of brotherhood is fever'd as the flax That falls afunder at the touch of fire. He He finds his fellow guilty of a fkin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r Lands interfected by a narrow frith prey. Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd, 5 No: No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the flave And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no flaves at home.-Then why abroad? Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs And jealous of the bleffing. Spread it then, Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Sure there is need of focial intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations, in a world that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And |