Talk:An Essay on Man

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What is the source on this quotation: "the most beautiful, the most useful, the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language"?! Google shows up nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.214.248.251 (talk) 07:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Je recherche une citation d'alexander pope entendue dans le film eternal sunshine.....: "Heureux ceux qui...... Si vous la connaissez, merci de me la faire suivre: pascale. renard@laposte.net

Possibly the verses  
Happy the man, whose wish and care
 A few paternal acres bound ...Seadowns (talk) 00:17, 22 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The interpretation expressed in this article is completely wrong. It's optimistic alright, but only when you correctly define optimism as Leibniz as this is the best of all possible worlds. I'm not surprised that someone should come up with the reverse, because this is a very "Whig" country, which will not admit of original sin. Such people begin with God and not man. Bolingbroke was a Platonist as were the 19th c Whigs with all their coercive measures, and they remain so today. They make it seem man is perfectible, but make the attempt impossible and authoritarian. Whatever is, must be right, because we are in no position to know otherwise no matter what such people think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.145.174 (talk) 20:57, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]