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Curious Account Given By The Dumb Philosopher.
merit , wherever it reared its head . Squire Sensual debauched the wives and daughters of the principal inhabitants . The Regent himself governed every thing , according to the dictates of his own obstinacy , rig ht or wrong ; and his grandson , Ambition , entangled the empire in an unnecessary and fatal war with a neig hbouring nation , about some trifling punctilios of honour . Integrity , Justice , Coinpassionand Friendshi were banished the statefor opposing these
, p , , pernicious proceedings . In short , the subjects soon became sensible , that instead of a gracious Empress , they had now a manyheaded tyrant at the helm : but as Hope and Joy had long since left their confines , they had no refuge to fly to , but ' the two ladies , Anxiety and Timorous . nation
' This confusion must necessarily have brought the whole into litter ruin , had not a certain matron , who was held in particular esteem by the late Empress ; but , by the populace , was looked upon to be no ' better than a sorceress , interposed , and put a stop to this misery , while yet there was a remedy . This prudent and venerable svbil , ' whose name was Experience , taking the opportunity of a fair , appeared in the midst of the croud , on the market-place , and holding up a piece of the late Empress ' s coin , in the sig ht of all the people , " This , mv friends and fellow-sufferers , " said she , "is a ' coin which
will bear all tests ; "' holding at the same time a glass over it , which , by contracting the ravs of the sun into a centre , had the power to melt all metals of a base alloy . " But this , " continued she , holding up a piece of the new coin , which , upon applying her glass to it , was reduced to its intrinsic value , " can hardly withstand the least degree of trial : and just so are all the imaginary advantages of your new form of government ; dazzling , but of no duration . Is it for this phantom you have bartered the happy Administration of your deposed Sovereign ? ' '
' The populace , whose eyes began to be opened at so palpable a conviction , finding themselves wounded in the most sensible part , their riches , took up arms , by unanimous consent , brought the deposed Empress out of her confinement , and restored her to her lawful throne . Their rage would have hurried them on to exterminate the whole race of the Wills , had not this gracious Princess herself appeased their furvand iven immediate command to sacrifice
Self-, g Interest to their revenge T declaring , at the same time , that though the family of the Wills were wholly unqualified for the Administration , she ' had other employments for them , in which they mig ht be of real benefit to the common weal . ' This description , as it is called , is plainly an allegorical history of the human Passions , and contains the following moral doctrine ,
viz . that the happiness of this life consists chiefly in the moderation and government of these passions . We attribute two different powers to the soul , reason and trie will . Reason teaches us how to determine our views , and it is the business of the will to put thcrnjn execution . According to the Cartesians , reason has its teat in ' the brain ; and the v ill , with its passions , love , joy , hope , fear , sorrow , hatred , & c . in the heart . As
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Curious Account Given By The Dumb Philosopher.
merit , wherever it reared its head . Squire Sensual debauched the wives and daughters of the principal inhabitants . The Regent himself governed every thing , according to the dictates of his own obstinacy , rig ht or wrong ; and his grandson , Ambition , entangled the empire in an unnecessary and fatal war with a neig hbouring nation , about some trifling punctilios of honour . Integrity , Justice , Coinpassionand Friendshi were banished the statefor opposing these
, p , , pernicious proceedings . In short , the subjects soon became sensible , that instead of a gracious Empress , they had now a manyheaded tyrant at the helm : but as Hope and Joy had long since left their confines , they had no refuge to fly to , but ' the two ladies , Anxiety and Timorous . nation
' This confusion must necessarily have brought the whole into litter ruin , had not a certain matron , who was held in particular esteem by the late Empress ; but , by the populace , was looked upon to be no ' better than a sorceress , interposed , and put a stop to this misery , while yet there was a remedy . This prudent and venerable svbil , ' whose name was Experience , taking the opportunity of a fair , appeared in the midst of the croud , on the market-place , and holding up a piece of the late Empress ' s coin , in the sig ht of all the people , " This , mv friends and fellow-sufferers , " said she , "is a ' coin which
will bear all tests ; "' holding at the same time a glass over it , which , by contracting the ravs of the sun into a centre , had the power to melt all metals of a base alloy . " But this , " continued she , holding up a piece of the new coin , which , upon applying her glass to it , was reduced to its intrinsic value , " can hardly withstand the least degree of trial : and just so are all the imaginary advantages of your new form of government ; dazzling , but of no duration . Is it for this phantom you have bartered the happy Administration of your deposed Sovereign ? ' '
' The populace , whose eyes began to be opened at so palpable a conviction , finding themselves wounded in the most sensible part , their riches , took up arms , by unanimous consent , brought the deposed Empress out of her confinement , and restored her to her lawful throne . Their rage would have hurried them on to exterminate the whole race of the Wills , had not this gracious Princess herself appeased their furvand iven immediate command to sacrifice
Self-, g Interest to their revenge T declaring , at the same time , that though the family of the Wills were wholly unqualified for the Administration , she ' had other employments for them , in which they mig ht be of real benefit to the common weal . ' This description , as it is called , is plainly an allegorical history of the human Passions , and contains the following moral doctrine ,
viz . that the happiness of this life consists chiefly in the moderation and government of these passions . We attribute two different powers to the soul , reason and trie will . Reason teaches us how to determine our views , and it is the business of the will to put thcrnjn execution . According to the Cartesians , reason has its teat in ' the brain ; and the v ill , with its passions , love , joy , hope , fear , sorrow , hatred , & c . in the heart . As