an error of judgment;—mistaking most unwarrantably the conduct of the murderers for the sanction of the Deity whom they insulted, while they pretended to worship,—he madly exclaims
"There is no God?
Nature confirms the faith his death-groan sealed."
And then, sinking most miserably from his poetical beauty, in the same proportion as he abandons his reason, he has the following weak and incomprehensible explanation of this unfounded assertion.
"Let heaven and earth, let man's revolving race,
His ceaseless generations tell their tale;
Let every part, depending on the chain
That links it to the whole, point to the hand
That grasps its term! Let every seed that falls,
In silent eloquence unfold its store
Of argument. Infinity within,
Infinity without, belie creation!
The inexterminable spirit it contains,
Is nature's only god! but human pride
Is skilful to invent most serious names
To hide its ignorance. The name of God
Has fenc'd about all crime with holiness,
Himself the creature of his worshippers,
Whose names, and attributes, an passions change,
Seeva, Budh, Foh, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!"
Much of this rhapsody cannot be met in the way of reason, for it is irrational. The declaration, that there is no God, is contradictory
