The Creature _depends_ upon the Creator. The Creature is bound to the Creator by a million of distinct relations. If you ask for One Relation, that shall contain all the others, it is _this One_, Dependency. That is to say, that, so long as you own your dependency, so long is there no true relation that you can deny. But, if you deny your dependency, therewith and therein you deny _all_ your other true relations. The _first_ motion towards (_i. e._ in the direction of—_i. e._ relating to) God, of pride in the proud Creature, is the denial of _dependency_. Satan _denies his dependency_. Both in the _Past_—for he denies his Creation, and avers that he had never heard such a thing mentioned. And in the _Present_, by renouncing his allegiance, opening war, &c. He denies the Creature’s continual derivation from the Creator, when he says, (as if in the _Future_,) “our own right hand _shall teach us_ highest deeds.” NORTH. If it should appear necessary to vindicate expressly and at length the character which has been affirmed as one main character of the _Paradise Lost_, namely, that it is an _Ethico-didactic_ Poem, the proofs offer themselves to the hand more thickly than that they can easily be all gathered. They are _Implicit_ and _Explicit_. The _Implicit_ or inferential Proofs—Proofs involved in the tenor of the displayed History, and which are by reflection to be drawn out and unfolded—are of several kinds, and, in each, of the highest description.