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Page xxxii
... evil , wherever he may have derived them , in the traditional ways . For physical evils he relies on the accepted postulate that what man knows as ill is good in its relation to a larger plan enclosing him that he cannot comprehend ...
... evil , wherever he may have derived them , in the traditional ways . For physical evils he relies on the accepted postulate that what man knows as ill is good in its relation to a larger plan enclosing him that he cannot comprehend ...
Page xxxiii
... evil . In the poem , Pope takes largely for granted the acceptance of the principle with respect to physical and metaphysical evil . His task is to apply it to moral evil - and it is just here that what he says has been oftenest ...
... evil . In the poem , Pope takes largely for granted the acceptance of the principle with respect to physical and metaphysical evil . His task is to apply it to moral evil - and it is just here that what he says has been oftenest ...
Page 38
... evil through its lacking something natural and due to it , for that a man have not wings is not an evil to him , because it is not natural for him to have them ... But it is an evil if he have no hands , which are natural and due to him ...
... evil through its lacking something natural and due to it , for that a man have not wings is not an evil to him , because it is not natural for him to have them ... But it is an evil if he have no hands , which are natural and due to him ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | xi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | lxxxi |
NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS | xc |
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