. Life in the Sandwich Islands: or The heart of the Pacific, as it was and is. Tis all ahke conventional: the mind Is tortured like the body, cramped, confined : A thing made up, by rules of art, for life ; Most perfect, when with natm-e most at strife : Till the strife ceases, and the thing of art. Forgetting nature, no more plays a part; Sees truth in the factitious ;—pleasures slave— Its drudge, not lord ; in trifles only grave. With etiquette for virtue, heart subdued, The right betraying, lest you should be rude ; Excusing wrong, lest you be thought precise, In morals easy, and in manners
. Life in the Sandwich Islands: or The heart of the Pacific, as it was and is. Tis all ahke conventional: the mind Is tortured like the body, cramped, confined : A thing made up, by rules of art, for life ; Most perfect, when with natm-e most at strife : Till the strife ceases, and the thing of art. Forgetting nature, no more plays a part; Sees truth in the factitious ;—pleasures slave— Its drudge, not lord ; in trifles only grave. With etiquette for virtue, heart subdued, The right betraying, lest you should be rude ; Excusing wrong, lest you be thought precise, In morals easy, and in manners nice ; To keep in with the world your only end, And with the world to censure or defend; 174: LIFE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. To bend to it each passion, thought, desire ; With it genteelly cold, or all on fire, What have you left to call your own, I pray ? You ask, What says the world, and that obey ; Where singularity alone is sm. Live uncondemned, yet prostrate all -within. You educate the manners, not the heart, And morals make good breeding and an art. R. H. Sand-wich Islands Doutle Canoe. THE MOLOKAI GARDENS OF COKAL. 1Y5 CHAPTER VIII. THE CORAL MASONRY AND CORALS OF MOLOKAI AND OTHERPARTS OF THE ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC. TiiEUE, in the furthest deserts of the Deep,The coral worm its architecture vastUprears, and new-made islands have their birth. Curious work of Zoopbytes—Sub-marine gardens described—Living specimens ex-hibited—Letting a crab out of prison—How the corals grow—Theory for the forma-tion of a coral island—The tumuli of a buried continent—Evidence of a re-elevatoryprocess—Geological phenomena not accounted for—Observations of Williams, thomartyr of Eromanga—Effect of electricity in precipitating the particles of Ume insea-water—Instances adduced—The part it may have in the formation of reefs—Views of Sir David Brewster examined—Mixture of fancy and fact—Experiments ofPeyronnel—Philosophical analysis—Secrets of N
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