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become a dazzling light to Ihe world ! By thyself 

 thou hast propriety with heaveuly confines ; by 

 her thou wilt have a father, for she lias one. Hence- 

 forward thy name will signify light and saviour ; 

 and hers , means justice, but justice in its widest 

 sensé, in the sensé opposed to that of right , which 

 is understood only of force ; for Jupiter , who op- 

 pressed Prometheus , means nothing more than 

 force. 



» Thus you will first make isopolitia enter into 

 the world and isonomia will follow. Orpheus , per- 

 mit me to make you one question more. In listen- 

 ing to the secret voice which hurries you on to 

 do good to men, hast thou matured the hidden se- 

 crets of that god who dwells in thee. 



j)No, said Orpheus, 1 have not matured by reflection 

 the secret counsels of that god who is within me ; 

 for his counsels have ail the appearance of ordeTfs , 

 and nothing remains, but to act. Listen in thy turn, 

 O my father, listen to the récital of my first inspi- 

 ration. The lyre has always awakened in my mind 

 a thousand confused ideas , that in my marvellous 

 childhood I had not strenglh enough to grasp and 

 to embrace. {s there not a voice in material objects? 

 Those brilliant coloured clouds wandering over our 

 heads, do they noî represent to our imagination 

 the glorious orbs which they hide from our mor- 

 tal vision. Aie our languages a ray of the human 

 thought. Is the human thought a beam of the di- 

 vine thought? Or rather, is not the word , which 

 is man himself, the eternal subsisting inspiration of 



