...evil brings. . Why charge we Him in those, in these acquit? In both, ti reason right, is to subniiV Better for us, perhaps it might appear, Were there...here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That neverpassion discomposed the mind. But Nature, lives by elemental strife, And passions are the elements...

...Forderung ein, den Sturm aus der Natur zu verbannen: „Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,/ Where there all harmony, all virtue here;/ That never air or ocean felt the wind;/ That never passion discompos'd the mind:/ But all subsists by elemental strife;/ And passions are the elements of life./...

...respect to the human race, as well as every other series in the scale, we must, I think, conclude, that, The general order, since the whole began, Is kept in nature, and is kept in man.19 Order is heaven's first law; and, this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.20...

...all-pervasive chaos, an "elemental strife." "Better for us, perhaps," he opines, it might appear, Were аierе all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind: But ALL subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life....

...of enthusiasm. We rather regret it should be so ; a little more colouring would do no harm ; " For all subsists by elemental strife, And passions are the elements of life." Also 'tis well sometimes to gild the realities of life ; and the excess only of imagination becomes...

...destroyed." The key to such beliefs comes with Popian succinctness: "ORDER is Heaven's first law," and "The general ORDER, since the whole began, / Is kept in nature, and is kept in Man."20 In the 178os such aesthetic assumptions intertwined with political ideology to shape Jefferson's...