Wise and Unwise.
" The fool said in his heart ' There is no God.' " \ Psalm xiii, 1. He says, and glories in the thought, That all within the range of sight, And far beyond it, was self-brought From forth the depth of void and night. He says, and vows he eally thinks, The might and splendour of the scene, And order of its countless links, Depend upon no Power xmseen ; That all is matter — it alone Composed the Iliad, wrote the playn Of Shakespeare, built the Parthenon. And ploughs with steam the ocean ways ; That man, who boasts a soul, is nauglil But matter— a machine sublime, The function of whose brain is thought. And was an ape in former time : Now sovereign of himself complete, And disillusioned of a God, He smiles at Law and Judgment seat In progress towards the parent clad. Such wisdom has tho world acquired. And teaches in her highest school ! But Israel's prophet, truth inspired, lleld up the atheist as a fool. J. M. Otama, September 5.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 24
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172Wise and Unwise. Otago Witness, Issue 1765, 19 September 1885, Page 24
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