Pope concludes his first epistle with the controversial but famous declaration: 'Whatever is, is right.'
As heard by us
A disciplined reading of Pope's case for order, self-knowledge, and virtue.
Alexander Pope's Essay on Man presents human nature as a matter of duty, vice, virtue, and the ties among them. Its calm, bookish tone gives the argument a steady frame, and the movement from broad maxims to concrete examples keeps the reading connected rather than piecemeal.
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