A Sequel to Don Juan — page 84: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 7) CANTO Il, O Reason! or O Instinct ! guide my pen With force replenished, for a little space ! I am not one of those disdainful men Whoa broad tine of demarcation trace Between Instinct and Reason ;—therefore, when The lights of intellect that line efface, I shall be first to hail the fall’n condition Of metaphysics’ ancient superstition. II. The pride and vain conceit which drew that line Exalting man over the brute creation Immeasurably, supposed it very fine To raise humanity to such a station : But Nature, to make man thus singly shine, Must suddenly have leapt from that gradation, Or gradual series of ascents, which we Throughout her works invariably see. CoOMmiclbooks.con