All severally
plunged themselves into the accursed multitude, there to wander in an
eternity of unabating anguish.
Such was, and such should be, the punishment of unrestrained passions and
atrocious actions! Such is, and such should be, the chastisement of
blind ambition, that would transgress those bounds which the Creator hath
prescribed to human knowledge; and, by aiming at discoveries reserved for
pure Intelligence, acquire that infatuated pride, which perceives not
that the condition appointed to man is to be ignorant and humble.
Thus the Caliph Vathek, who, for the sake of empty pomp and forbidden
power, had sullied himself with a thousand crimes, became a prey to grief
without end, and remorse without mitigation; whilst the humble and
despised Gulchenrouz passed whole ages in undisturbed tranquillity, and
the pure happiness of childhood.
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