A MATERIAL WOULD. 



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

 full spirit of Brahmism :— 



Jupiter is the air ; 

 Jupiter is the eiirth ; 

 Jupiter is the heaven ; 

 All is Jupiter. * 



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 following 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 aad 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 ail that live. I 



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

 ries 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. An- 

 quetil du Perron, 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 inchnation to it ; the writings of M. Neckar are full 

 of it ;J: and M.'lsnard has professedly advanced and supported it in his 

 work, '^Sur I'lmmortahte de I'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 tendency on its first appearance, 

 and hence its author was generally, though incorrectly denominated the 

 modern Lucretius, and the poem itself v/as regarded 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 ex- 

 pectations to the present state of things, to undermine the great doctrines 



* Ztvg tCTiv aiOripj 

 Zevs T£ yrj' 

 Ztvg 6e ovpavog, 

 Zcvs Ta Txavra. 



t Zcvs Trpwroff ycvcroj Zevs disrarog ap')(LK::[iavvos 



Zcvs KccpaXrjj Zcvs pcaara. Aios ^' ck izavra rcTvKrai, 

 Zcvs aparjv ycvcro, Zcvs ap.^poTOs c-riKcro vvpipij' 

 Zcvs T^o9jxr]v yairfs Ta Kai ovpavov aaTCpoevrog' 

 Zcvs 'Tvoirj iravnov' Zevs aKafiara irvpos oppj' 

 Zcvs novTov pi^a' Zcvs cXios cSc GcXrjvn]' 

 Zcvs BuolXcvs' Zevs avros airavnov ap^'-'ytvcBXos* 

 'Ev Kparos CIS Aaipiiov ycvcro, [icyas ap^Oi airavTMv'' 



TLavra yap cv (xcyaXio Zrjvos raSc (ja)/'.«rt KCirai, Ex. Apul. 



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



