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    the savages of the Indian islands , of people without any notion of religion , they would only prov $ the extremity of barbarism to which waut and suffering had reduced those wretched beings * . But these religious ideas , rude and diversified as they may be , are proved , by the very nature of the influence which they possess , not to be the spontaneous growth of the uncultivated mind ;

    they come to it from without . Man , indeed , in the course of his moral and intellectual development , is wholly unlike the inferior orders of creation—thriving on their native soils , and reaching a rapid maturity under the climate originally assigned them . For his higher perfection he requires the aid and co-operation of a foreign influence . The seeds of improvement are all within him —speech , memory , and reason ;—but , when he has once fallen below a certain grade of culture , they seem incapable of

    fructifying , till some external stimulus has been applied—till an accession of arts and usages , before unknown , brought down upon them by the wide stream of tradition , leaves behind , as it were , a rich and fertilizing soil , which shortly quickens them into life . Whence this mysterious stream had its source—through what regions it has passed—and what elements of life and fertility it has carried down and dispersed with its waters—^ -these are the questions which now lie before us ; and these an examination of Herder ' s remaining volumes may perhaps , in some degree , enable us to answer .

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    The Philosophy of the History of Mankind . 97

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    LOVE .

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    Love is a germ , a feeling that can ne'er Be banish'd wholly from the human breast , It lingers still through pleasure , crime , or care , However little nurs'd , or much oppress e d ;—The beacon-star of all that ' s pure and fair , It points for ever to the port of rest ! The worM may dim , but ne ' er can darken quite , That holy ray of God ' s eternal light .

    The veriest wretch who wars against his kind , In whom the echo of Love ' s voice seems mute , Keeps yet some little corner of his mind Warm with affection for a bird or brute ! There dimly lies th * etherial gem enshrined—There lives the dwar £ plant of a heavenly root—Revealing stiltthat that can never die , Which has its birth and beauty from on high !

    The chanty , that envy and the wear Of jarring interests in their blighting course Aye chill , a common peril , or despair , " Revives in all its purity and force . * Book IX . v . p . 231 ^ 237 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/25/