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ters the most stubborn wills, with that influence 

 which acts inevitably on ail , and that happy 

 fascination which appropriâtes to itself, and uni- 

 tés so many unconnected forces. In short, he 

 thought himself called upon to create the irrésis- 

 tible harmonies which group men togelher and 

 make a moral whole, of many dispersed members. 



Somelimes his soul was divided belween high 

 théories and the confused sentiment of happiness 

 that is ever mixed , more or less , in the minds of 

 mortals however sublime. He asked himself if he 

 might not without error seek to be happy , in 

 giving happiness to an amiable consort ôf his obs- 

 cure destiny, and again if that expansive faculty , 

 which urged him thus to live in olhers , might not 

 be concentrated in one sole object. He soon came 

 to persuade himself that his insatiable désire of 

 well meriting of men , was in him a mere roving 

 instinct of love. 



» You must not wonder , sage Evander , at the 

 uncertainty of the thoughts which agitated the soul 

 of Orpheus. He is a new man , and cannot tell the 

 name of his father ; he is a plebeian hero ; he will 

 soon wish to raise himself higher, to discover in 

 the heavens , what God is destined to succeed 

 Jupiter. Jupiter, the opic God has succeeded Sa- 

 tura , the God of the Titans ; Bacchus , brilliant 

 Phanes of the active principle rendered accessible 

 to ail, the unknown God of the plebeian éman- 

 cipation, will come in his turn and dethrone the 

 dreadful patriciates , to whom , according to the 



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