The Yahoo; a satirical rhapsody ...

11 C6 TH-TE AHO(O: Religion's f'renzy has,'tis very plain, Contaminated every Yahoo's blain.' Are Chesterfield's illcurablest now mended? Oh, no! his hospital is mtuch extended. The world is one huge Bedlam, there's no doubt, A few call'd Mlssidle patients —-millions o0st.4 Blackmore affirmed that all mankind were mad,O Some slightly so, some worse, some very bad. And as in ev'ry class, and ev'ry station, There's what pig Johnson i calls concatenation, The more you stir, the more its stinks, In every dir ty case." —Tin Bobbi., "Society," says the Larlreat (before he smelt the sack), "'may, with great propriety, be comparedC to an ass that kickls those who attempt to relieve it of its burden."-Letters firo' SIpaiMi. And thle same tune sings the Xez iti1otlsthly 3Ifcgcazihze. "With priests rennt and rave about sin, WVitlih ick's kitelehen underground frighten; With mountebanks make tile mob grin, Do every thinig but enlighten. I-e that aimns at enlightening only out doles An ophthalmie driug to a nation of moles."' "The histoi v of Christians and of Chllistianity is _altoget;1her, and withlout exception, a history of madmen andlC lulnacy."-Pe'ry's Defenece. t The "Hospital of Inculables," wavs Lord Cllesterfield's classical and appropriate denomination of the Corinthian capitals, alias the House of Lords. "If you knew -lhat a hopeless and lethargic den of dullness and drawling our hospoital is during a debate, and whlat a mass of corrluption in its patienlts, you would wonder not that I very seldoml speak, but that I ever attempted it."-Loird Byuroi acsd his Coiltescporareies.. "Our world," says Lord Bolingbroke, "seems to be, in Iany respects, thle Bedlam of every other system of intelligent creatures." -Phlilosopl2ical Essrc/s. Of whlict opinion is also Voltaire. "Le mondle est lun grand Bedlam oil des Fous enehalinent dautres Fous." — Pot Po01 rri. Erasmus hardly excepts any. "Presque tous les hommes," he observes, "sont Fous: (a quoi bon ce preSqeGe? il Il'y a pas uni seul hlommn e qui n'extravague de plus d'une manidre:) ils seont done tous semblables en ee point h]." —Ercesme siu? Ia Folie. See Sir Richar.d Blacklmore on the Spleen. I "WVhy, I pray you, is not tlhe pig, and the great, acnd the huge, all on1 e." —F/'e.il.. is.