30 ON MATTER, AND 



The loneliest path, by mortal seldom trod, 

 The crowded city, all is full of God ; 

 Oceans and lakes, for God is all in all, 

 And we are all his offspring.* 



So JEschylus, in a passage still stronger in point, and imbued with the full 

 spirit of Brahmism : 



Jupiter is the air ; 

 Jupiter is the earth; 

 Jupiter is the heaven ; 

 - All is Jupiter.f 



But perhaps the passage most express is one contained in a very ancient 

 Greek poem entitled De Mundo, and ascribed to Orpheus, in the original highly 

 beautiful, and of which, for want of a better, I must trouble you with the fol 

 lowing translation : 



Jove first exists, whose thunders roll above ; 



Jove last, Jove midmost, all proceeds from Jove. 



Female is Jove, immortal Jove is male ; 



Jove the broad earth the heaven's irradiate pale. 



Jove is the boundless spirit, Jove the fire 



That warms the world with feeling and desire. 



The sea is Jove, the sun, the lunar ball ; 



Jove king supreme, the sovereign source of all. 



All power is his; to him all glory give, 



For his vast form embraces all that live.J 



This doctrine has not been confined to ancient times, or to the boundaries 

 of India and the republics of Greece and Rome ; it has descended through 

 every age, and has its votaries even in the present day. M. Anquetil du Per- 

 ron, whom I have already spoken of, as the Latin translator of the Oupnek'- 

 hat, or Upanishad, from the Persian version, has himself distinctly avowed 

 an inclination to it ; the writings of M. Neckar are full of it $ and M. Isnard 

 has professedly advanced and supported it in his work, " Sur PImmortalite de 

 1'Ame," printed at Paris in 1802. I do not know that it exists at present to 

 any great extent in our own country ; but if we look back to something less 

 than a century, we shall find it current among the philosophers of various 

 schools, and especially that of which Lord Bolingbroke has been placed at 

 the head ; and hence running through every page of the celebrated Essay on 

 Man, in the composition of which it is probable that Mr. Pope was imposed 

 upon by his noble patron, and was not sufficiently alive to the full tendency 

 of its principles. The critics on the Continent, however, perceived the ten- 

 dency on its first appearance ; and hence its author was generally, though in- 

 correctly, denominated the modern Lucretius, and the poem itself was re- 

 garded as one of the most dangerous productions that ever issued from the 

 press ; as a most insidious attempt, by confining the whole of our views, our 

 reasonings, and our expectations to the present state of things, to undermine 



* 'E* Aibs apx<V/<T0a rbv oldfaoT' avSpes eS/jiev 

 *A.p()TjTov utaral 6e Aids itaaat filv ayvtal, 

 Ildffcu 6' dvOp&TTuv ayopai nearrj Sf $d\ao<ra, 

 Kai AtfiVf ' TtdvTT) J5e Aids Kt%f>fmEQa irdvres' 

 Tot/ y&p Kal yevos lofiLEV- Lib. i. 1. 



t Zevs etrnv aldfip, 

 Zevs TS ytf 

 Zevs <5f ovpavdf, 

 Zevs Tct Tcavra. 



J Zevs TrpSroj yeviro, Zevs vararos dpxiKenavvos' 



Zevs K(j>a.\rl, Zevs ufaaa' Aids <5' & irdvTa riroKTar 



Zevs apar/v yevero, Zevs a/iBpoTOs err\ 



Zevs -nvQufiv yairjs TO. KM ovpavov da 



Zevs irvoiri vavT&v Zevs a/cifyiara irv 



Zevs irdvrov pK,a' Zevs 5jAto? rj 



Zevs flaffi\evs' Zevs avrds an 



'Ev Kpdros ets AainSJv ylvero, [neyas ap%oj arravrQv' 



Udvra yap tv ueydXu Zijvbs rdde <rw/xart /carat. 



Ex. ApuL 

 $ See Sir W. Jones's Works, i. p. 448. 



