Each individual feeks a fev'ral goal;

But HEAV'N's great view is One, and that the Whole.
That counter-works each folly and caprice;

That disappoints th' effect of ev'ry vice;
That, happy frailties to all ranks apply'd;
Shame to the virgin, to the matron pride,
Fear to the statesman, rashness to the chief,
To kings prefumption, and to crowds belief:
That, Virtue's ends from vanity can raise,
Which feeks no int'reft, no reward but praise;
And build on wants, and on defects of mind,
The joy, the peace, the glory of Mankind.
Heav'n forming each on other to depend,

A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for affiftance call,

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'Till one Man's weakness grows the ftrength of all. Wants, frailties, paffions, clofer ftill ally

The common int'reft, or endear the tie.

To these we owe true friendship, love fincere, 255
Each home-felt joy that life inherits here;
Yet from the fame we learn, in its decline,
Those joys, thofe loves, thofe int'refts to refign;
Taught half by Reason, half by mere decay,
To welcome death, and calmly pass away.

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Whate'er the Paffion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more;

The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n,

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The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n.

See the blind beggar dance, the cripple fing,
The fot a hero, lunatic a king;

The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely bleft, the poet in his Mufe.

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See fome strange comfort ev'ry state attend, And pride bestow'd on all, a common friend : See fome fit paffion ev'ry age fupply, Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble ftill, as that before;, 281 'Till tir'd he fleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er.

VER. 270.-the poet in bis Mufe.] The author having said, That no one would change his profeffion or views for those of another, intended to carry his obfervation ftill further, and fhew that Men were unwilling to exchange their own acquirements even for thofe of the fame kind, confeffedly larger, and infinitely more eminent, in another. To this end he wrote,

What partly pleases, totally will shock :

I queftion much, if Toland would be Locke.

but wanting another proper inftance of this truth when he publifhed his laft Edition of the Effay, he referved the lines above for fome following one,

Mean-while Opinion gilds with varying rays
Those painted clouds that beautify our days;
Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd,
And each vacuity of fense by Pride:
Thefe build as faft as knowledge can destroy;
In folly's cup ftill laughs the bubble, joy;
One prospect loft, another still we gain;
And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ;

Ev'n mean Self-love becomes, by force divine,
The scale to measure others wants by thine.
See! and confefs, one comfort still must rise;
'Tis this, Tho' Man's a fool, yet GOD IS WISE.

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VER. 286. And each vacuity of fenfe by Pride:] An eminent Cafuift, Father Francis Garaffe, in his Somme Theologique, has drawn a very charitable conclufion from this principle. "Selon "la Juftice (fays this equitable Divine) tout travail honnête "doit être recompensé de loüange ou de fatisfaction. Quand les "bons efprits font un ouvrage excellent, ils font juftement re"compenfez par les fuffrages du Public. Quand un pauvre esprit "travaille beaucoup, pour fair un mauvais ouvrage, il n'eft "pas jufte ni raifonable, qu'il attende des louanges publiques: "car elles ne lui font pas duës. Mais afin que fes travaux ne "demeurent pas fans recompenfe, Dieu lui donne une fatisfaction "perfonelle, que perfonne ne lui peut envier fans une injuftice "plus que barbare; tout ainfi que Dieu, qui eft jufte, donne de

la fatisfaction aux Grenouilles de leur chant. Autrement la blâme public, joint à leur mécontentement, feroit suffisant les réduire au defespoir."

pour

ARGUMENT OF

EPISTLE III.

Of the Nature, and State of Man with reffect to Society.

I. THE whale Universe one fißem of Society, 7, &c. Nothing made wholly for itself, nor yet wholly for another, 27. The happiness of Animals mutual, & 49. II. Reafon or Inftinét operate alike to the good of each Individual, 79. Reafon or Inftinct oferate alfo to Society in all animals, & 109. III. How far Society carried by Instinct, 115. How much further by Reafon, 128. IV. Of that which is called the State of Nature, 144. Reason inflructed by Inftinct in the invention of Arts, 166, and in the Forms of Society,

176. V. Origin of Political Societies, y 196. Origin of Monarchy, 207. Patriarchal Government, y 212. VI. Origin of true Religion and Government, from the fame principle, of Love, 231, &c. Origin of Superftition and Tyranny, from the fame principle, of Fear, 237, &c. The Influence of Self-love operating to the focial and public Good, y 266 Refloration of true Religion and Government on their firft principle, 285. Mixt Government, 288. Varicus Forms of each, and the true end of all, & 300, &c.