An Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires

An Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering...
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An Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires

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An Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires

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Author: Pope, Alexander,1688-1744
Format: eBook
Language: English

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires

Popes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George I. he was chiefly a translator, and made much money by satisfying the French-classical taste with versions of the Iliad and Odyssey. Under George I. he also edited Shakespeare, but with little profit to himself; for Shakespeare was but a Philistine in the eyes of the French-classical critics. But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted mens attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan. As Popes genius ripened, the best part of the world in which he worked was pressing forward, as a mariner who will no longer hug the coast but crowds all sail to cross the storms of a wide unknown sea. Popes poetry thus deepened with the course of time, and the third period of his life, which fell within the reign of George II., was that in which he produced the Essay on Man, the Moral Essays, and the Satires. These deal wholly with aspects of human life and the great questions they raise, according throughout with the doctrine of the poet, and of the reasoning world about him in his latter day, that the proper study of mankind is Man. Wrongs in high places, and the private infamy of many who enforced the doctrines of the Church, had produced in earnest men a vigorous antagonism. Tyranny and unreason of low-minded advocates had brought religion itself into question; and profligacy of courtiers, each worshipping the golden calf seen in his mirror, had spread another form of scepticism. The intellectual scepticism, based upon an honest search for truth, could end only in making truth the surer by its questionings. The other form of scepticism, which might be traced in England from the low-minded frivolities of the court of Charles the Second, was widely spread among the weak, whose minds flinched from all earnest thought. They swelled the number of the army of bold questioners upon the ways of God to Man, but they were an idle rout of camp-followers, not combatants; they simply ate, and drank, and died. In 1697, Pierre Bayle published at Rotterdam, his Historical and Critical Dictionary, in which the lives of men were associated with a comment that suggested, from the ills of life, the absence of divine care in the shaping of the world. Doubt was born of the corruption of society; Nature and Man were said to be against faith in the rule of a God, wise, just, and merciful. In 1710, after Bayles death, Leibnitz, a German philosopher then resident in Paris, wrote in French a book, with a title formed from Greek words meaning Justice of God, Theodicee, in which he met Bayles argument by reasoning that what we cannot understand confuses us, because we see only the parts of a great whole. Bayle, he said, is now in Heaven, and from his place by the throne of God, he sees the harmony of the great Universe, and doubts no more. We see only a little part in which are many details that have purposes beyond our ken. The argument of Leibnitzs Theodicee was widely used; and although Pope said that he had never read the Theodicee, his Essay on Man has a like argument. When any book has a wide influence upon opinion, its general ideas pass into the minds of many people who have never read it. Many now talk about evolution and natural selection, who have never read a line of Darwin. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 2428
Author: Pope, Alexander
Release Date: Dec 1, 2000
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894

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