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458 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Ο Thou that for our sins didst take human form and humbly make Thy home on earth Thou that to Thy divinity human nature didst ally By mortal birth And in that form didst suffer here Torment and agony and fear So patiently By Thy redeeming grace alone And not for merits of my own Oh pardon me III -CranSlatt into Jtatin Uroiir Whatever is best is safest lies out of the reach of human power can neither be given nor taken away Such is this great and beautiful work of Nature the world Such is the mind of man which contemplates and admires the world whereof it makes the noblest part These are inseparably ours and as long as we remain in one we shall enjoy the other Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led by the course of human accidents Wherever they lead us on what coast soever we are thrown by them we shall not find ourselves absolutely strangers We shall meet with men and women creatures of the same figure en- dowed with the same faculties and born under the same laws of Nature We shall see the same virtues and vices flowing from the same principles but varied in thousand different and con- trary modes according to that infinite variety of laws and cus- toms which is established for the same universal end the preserve- tion of society We shall feel the same revolutions of seasons and the same sun and moon will guide the course of our year The same azure vault bespangled with stars will be everywhere spread over our heads There is no part of the world from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space of the