Excerpt from The Rambler He'd talk for hours of Roman pride and guile Then fill your soul with wonders of the Nile; Would quote from Homer, Virgil long and well And wondrous stories of the Trojans tell; How Grecian treachery, not arms, at length Robbed Priam's city of her pride and strength. The world's religions were his favorite themes. Of these, their founders and the fitful gleams Of truth across man's inner vis1on thrown By some intelligence of the Great Unknown With more than usual eloquence and force, He would, for hours, most learnedly discourse.'gainst idols and their worship naught of blame, Nor word of censure from his lips e'er came. These object lessons for a childish race He deemed but right and in their rightful place. To him no form of worship was so rude But must contain some element of good, Some force or principle, of Spiritual kind To move, direct or sooth the savage mind; Something to rouse the sluggish, dormant soul, And wake in man the sense of self control, To set aglow the inner spark divine, His thoughts of crime to thoughts of love incline. For slowly thus, but every step a gain, The race is lifted to a higher plane. The savage leaves his instincts and his clan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.