96 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO in. 



The virgin, Novelty, whose radiant train 



Soars o'er the clouds, or sinks beneath the main, 



With sweetly-mutable seductive charms 



Thrills the young sense, the tender heart alarms. 150 



Then Curiosity with tracing hands 



And meeting lips the lines of form demands, 



Buoy'd on light step, o'er ocean, earth, and sky, 



Rolls the bright mirror of her restless eye. 



While in wild groups tumultuous Passions stand, 



And Lust and Hunger head the Motley band; 



Then Love and Rage succeed, and Hope and Fear; 



And nameless Vices close the gloomy rear; 



Or young Philanthropy with voice divine 



Convokes the adoring Youth to Virtue's shrine; 160 



of objects, hoping to find novelty, and the pleasure consequent to this 

 degree of surprise; see Additional Note VII. 3. 



And meeting lips, 1. 152. Young children put small bodies into 

 their mouths, when they are satiated with food, as well as when they 

 are hungry, not with design to taste them, but use their lips as an 

 organ of touch to distinguish the shape of them. Puppies, whose 

 toes are terminated with nails, and who do not much use their fore- 

 feet as hands, seem to have no other means of acquiring a knowledge 

 of the forms of external bodies, and are therefore perpetually playing 

 with things by taking them between their lips. 



