138 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO iv. 



Call for the dead from Time's o'erwhelming main, 

 And bid departed Sorrow live again. 



" Here ragged Avarice guards with bolted door 

 His useless treasures from the starving poor; 

 Loads the lorn hours with misery and care, 

 And lives a beggar to enrich his heir. 100 



Unthinking crowds thy forms, Imposture, gull, 

 A Saint in sackcloth, or a Wolf in wool. 



produces the pleasure of life or existence. This pleasure is nevertheless 

 increased, when the system is stimulated into rather stronger action 

 than usual, as after a copious dinner, and at the beginning of intoxi- 

 cation; and diminished, when it is only excited into somewhat less 

 activity than usual, which is termed ennui, or irksomeness of life. 



Ideal ills, 1. 94. The tooth-edge is an instance of bodily pain occa- 

 sioned by association of ideas. Every one in his childhood has re- 

 peatedly bit a part of the glass or earthen vessel, in which his food 

 has been given him, and has thence had a disagreeable sensation in 

 his teeth, attended at the same time with a jarring sound : and ever 

 after, when such a sound is accidentally produced, the disagreeable 

 sensation of the teeth follows by association of ideas ; this is further 

 elucidated in Zoonomia, Vol. I. Sect. XVI. 10. 



Enrich his heir, 1. 100. 



Cum furor haud dubius, cum sit manifesta phrenitis, 

 Ut locuples moriaris, egenti vivere fato. JUVENAL. 



A Wolf in wool, 1. 102. A wolf in sheep's clothing. 



