173, etc.
VII. That throughout the whole visible world, an universal order and
gradation in the sensual and mental faculties is observed, which cause is a
subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to Man. The
gradations of sense, instinct, thought, reflection, reason; that Reason
alone countervails all the other faculties, v.207.
VIII. How much further this order and subordination of living creatures may
extend, above and below us; were any part of which broken, not that part
only, but the whole connected creation, must be destroyed, v.233.
IX. The extravagance, madness, and pride of such a desire, v.250.
X. The consequence of all, the absolute submission due to Providence,
both as to our present and future state, v.281, etc., to the end.
EPISTLE I.
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;
Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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