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ΟΝ ΤΗΕ
ESSAY on MAN.
EPISTLE I.
OF the nature and state of man with respect to to the universe.
ver. 17, &c.] He can reason only from things known, and judge only with regard to his own system.
ver. 36, &c.] He is therefore not a judge of his own perfection or imperfection, but is certainly such a being as is suited to his place or rank in the creation.
ver. 73] His happiness depends on his ignorance to a certain degree.
ver. 75, &c.] See this pursued in epist. 3. ver. 70, &c. 83, & c.
ver. 87]And on his hope of a relation to a future state.
ver. 90] Farther opened in epist. 2. ver. 265.epist. 3. ver. 78.epist. 4. ver. 336, &c.
ver. 109] The pride of aiming at more knowledge and perfection, and the impiety of pretending to judge of the dispensations of providence, the causes of his error and misery.
ver. 127] The absurdity of conceiting himself the final cause of the creation, or expecting that perfection in the moral world which is not in the natural.
ver. 162] See this subject extended in epist. 2. from ver. 90 to 112, 155, &c.
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