TOWER OF BABEL.
Reading edition
Those who have a taste for allegorizing the Bible, may probably consider the builders of Babel as a set of disputatious metaphysicians, scaling Heaven by their inquiries into matter and spirit. Their punishment gives consistence to the fancy; since nothing could foil them so much as a confusion of language: as is proved by their descendants, who have been squabbling about words (mistaken for things) even down to the present day.