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As I think this is a point which cannot be too much inculcated, I shall desire my reader to compare what I have here written with what I have said in my twenty-first speculation. No. 109. Abnormis sapiens. HOR. Sat. ii. 1. 2. v. 3. Of plain good sense, untutor'd in the schools.
Pope, in his Essay on Man, where he endeavours to show that happiness in the present depends, among other things, upon the hope of a future state, takes an opportunity of exciting compassion in behalf of the poor African, while he censures the avarice and cruelty of his master: "Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky-way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n Behind the cloud-topt hill an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold."
What then is to be said of the prodigies of spontaneous vitality? To a system which removes the Author of all so far from our contemplation, we might well prefer the faith of the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, and hears him in the wind.
Johnson himself says of this time: 'Days and months pass in a dream; and I am afraid that my memory grows less tenacious, and my observation less attentive. Pr. and Med. 160. 'Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Pope's Essay on Man, i. 99.
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