The Proper Study Of Mankind

See Plastic Nature Working To This End, The Single Atoms Each To Other Tend, Attract, Attracted To, The Next In Place Form'd And Impell'd Its Neighbor To Embrace.

And Each Blasphemer Quite Escape The Rod, Because The Insult's Not On Man, But God?

A Family Is But Too Often A Commonwealth Of Malignants.

Never Elated When Someone's Oppressed, Never Dejected When Another One's Blessed.

Pleased To The Last, He Crops The Flowery Food, And Licks The Hand Just Raised To Shed His Blood.