The Universal Cause

Here then we rest--``The Universal Cause Acts to one end, but acts by various laws." In all the madness of superfluous Health, The trim of Pride, the impudence of Wealth, Let this great truth be present night and day: But most be present, if we preach or pray. I. Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms …

…great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported lives; The strength he gains is from th'embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul, And one regards itself, and one the Whole. Thus God and Nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade Self-love and Social be the same.