And again in denouncing the _amateur_ slaughtering (euphemised by the mocking term of _Sport_) unblushingly perpetrated in the broad light of day:-- “When beasts of prey retire, that all night long, Urged by necessity, had ranged the dark, As if their conscious ravage shunned the light, Ashamed. Not so [he reproaches] the steady tyrant Man, Who with the thoughtless insolence of Power, Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath Of the worst monster that e’er roamed the waste, For Sport alone pursues the cruel chase, Amid the beamings of the gentle days. Upbraid, ye ravening tribes, our _wanton_ rage, For hunger kindles _you_, and lawless want; But lavish fed, in Nature’s bounty rolled-- To joy at anguish, and delight in blood-- Is what your horrid bosoms never knew.”[152] We conclude these extracts from _The Seasons_ with the poet’s indignant reflection upon the selfish greed of Commerce, which barbarously sacrifices by thousands (as it does also the innocent mammalia of the seas) the noblest and most sagacious of the terrestrial races for the sake of a superfluous luxury:-- “Peaceful, beneath primeval trees, that cast Their ample shade o’er Niger’s yellow stream, And where the Ganges rolls his sacred waves; Or mid the central depth of blackening woods, High raised in solemn theatre around, Leans the huge Elephant, wisest of _brutes_! O truly wise! with gentle might endowed: Though powerful, not destructive. Here he sees Revolving ages sweep the changeful Earth, And empires rise and fall: regardless he Of what the never-resting race of men Project. Thrice happy! could he ’scape their guile Who mine, from cruel avarice, his steps: Or with his towering grandeur swell their state-- The pride of kings!--or else his strength pervert, And bid him rage amid the mortal fray, Astonished at the madness of mankind.”[153] XXII. HARTLEY. 1705-1757. Celebrated as the earliest writer of the utilitarian school of morals. At the age of fifteen he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, of which he was afterwards elected a Fellow. Scruples of conscience about the “Thirty-nine Articles” would not allow him to subscribe them and take orders, and he turned to the medical profession, in which he reached considerable eminence.