men who had seen foreign shores with their eyes, calmly continued to propagate the old error. A PARAPHRASE, FROM THE GREEK. Οὐκ ἔθανες, Πρώτη, κ. τ. λ.--_Greek Anthology._ Protê, thou didst not die, But thou didst fly, When we saw thee no more, to a sunnier clime; In the isles of the blest, In the golden west, Where thy spirit let loose springs joyous and light O’er the verdurous floor, That is strewn evermore With blossoms that fade not, nor droop from their prime. Thou hast made thee a home Where no sorrow shall come, No cloud overshadow thy noon of delight; Cold or heat shall not vex thee, Nor sickness perplex thee, Nor hunger, nor thirst; no touch of regret For the things thou hast cherished, The forms that have perished, For lover or kindred, thy fancy shall fret; But thy joy hath no stain, Thy remembrance no pain, And the heights that we guess at thy sunshine makes plain. THE LAW OF GOD AND THE REGULATIONS OF SOCIETY. SUMMARY CONSIDERATIONS ON LAW. FROM THE FRENCH OF THE COMTE DE BREDA. “There are laws for the society of ants and of bees; how could any one suppose that there are none for human society, and that it is left to the chance of inventing them?”--_De Bonald._ I.--THE MODERN STATE. Never before was liberty so much talked about; never before was the very idea of it so utterly lost. Tyrants have been destroyed, it is said. This is a false assertion it may be (or rather, is it not certain?) that it has become more difficult for a sovereign to govern tyrannically, but tyranny is not dead--quite the contrary. All unlimited power is, of its own nature, tyrannical. Now, it is such a power that the modern state desires to wield. The state is held up to us as the supreme arbiter of good and evil; and, if we believe its defenders, it cannot err, its laws being in every case, and at all times, binding. People have banished God from the government of human society; but they have made to themselves a new god, despotic and blind, without hearing and without voice, whose power knows how to reach its slaves as well in the temple as in the public places, as well in the palace as in the humblest cot.