Was it not so, great Locke? and greater Bacon?

Great Socrates? And thou, Diviner still,[739]Whose lot it is by Man to be mistaken,[NL]And thy pure creed made sanction of all ill?

Redeeming Worlds to be by bigots shaken,[NM]How was thy toil rewarded? We might fill

Volumes with similar sad illustrations,

But leave them to the conscience of the nations.