It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

So much wrong could religion induce.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?