Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ^k Omar Khayyam who justly revolted from their Countrys false Re-ligion, and false, or foolish, Devotion to it ; butwho fell short of replacing what they subverted bysuch better Hope as others, with no better Revela-tion to guide them, had yet made a Law to them-selves. Lucretius, indeed, with such material asEpicurus furnished, satisfied himself with thetheory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed,and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator ;and so composing himself into a Stoical ratherthan Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ^k Omar Khayyam who justly revolted from their Countrys false Re-ligion, and false, or foolish, Devotion to it ; butwho fell short of replacing what they subverted bysuch better Hope as others, with no better Revela-tion to guide them, had yet made a Law to them-selves. Lucretius, indeed, with such material asEpicurus furnished, satisfied himself with thetheory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed,and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator ;and so composing himself into a Stoical ratherthan Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat down tocontemplate the mechanical Drama of the Uni-verse which he was part Actor in; himself and allabout him (as in his own sublime description ofthe Roman Theatre) discoloured with the lurid re-flex of the Curtain suspended between the Specta-tor and the Sun. Omar, more desperate, or morecareless of any so complicated System as resultedin nothing but hopeless Necessity, flung his own. ffiffiB rtii^numrtrmimiimiiiiimiiivmHiirr iiilinnii miuunji unmmm
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