Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. By Dugald Stewart. Rev. and abridged, with critical and explanatory notes, for the use of colleges and schools. By Francis Bowen ...

466 REASONING ANND DEDUCTIVE EVIDENCE,
ical arrangem ents, whether on the earth or in the heavens,
which continue to exhibit the same appearance from age to age.
"' ic seoetes, illic veniunt felicius uva:
Arborei fetus alibi, atque injussa virescunt
Gramina. Nonne vides, croceos ut Tmolos odores,
India mittit ebur, molles sua thura Sabmi?
At Clhalybes nudi ferrum, virosaque Pontus
Castorea, Eliadum palmas Epiros equarua?
Continuo has leges, ceternaquefcedera certis
Imposuit natura locis."
Virg. Georg. i. 60.The same metaphor occurs in another passage of the Georgics, where the poet describes the regularity which is exhibited
in the economy of the bees:"Solse communes natos, consortia tecta
Urbis habent, magnisque agitant sub legibus serum."
Georg. iv. 153.t
The following lines from Ovid's account of the Pythagorean
philosophy, are still more in point: —
" t rerum causas, et quid natura docebat;
Quid Dens: Unde nives: qum fulminis esset origo
Jupiter, an venti, discussa nube tonarent:
Quid quateret terras, quad sidera lege mearent,
Et quodcunque latet."
Ovid. Met. xv. 68.t
* [" Here golden corn, there luscious grapes abound,
There grass spontaneous, or rich fruits are foamdu
See'st thou not Tmolus saffron sweets dispense,
Her ivory Ind, Arabia frankincense,
The naked Chalybes their iron ore?
To Castor Pontus gives its fetid power;
While, for Olympic games, Epirus breeds,
To whirl the circling car, the swiftest steeds.
Nature these lZats anzd these eternal bands
First fixed on certain climes and certain lands."
Warton's translation.]
t [" They, they alone a general interest share,
Their young committing to the public care,
And all concurring in the common cause,
Live in fixed cities sncder common olaws."
Warton.]
$[" While he discoursed of heaven's mysterious laws,
The worlds original and nature's cause;