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Origin of true Religion and Government, from the

fame Principle of Love,

Origin of Superftition and Tyranny,

Principle of Fear,

The influence of Self-love operating to

public Good

ver. 235, &c.

from the fame

ver. 237, &c.
the social and

ver. 269.

Refloration of true Religion and Government on

their first principle,

ver. 283.

EPISTLE IV.

Of the Nature and State of Man with respect

to HAPPINESS.

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ESSAY on MAN:

A

EPISTLE I.

WAKE, MY ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things my

To low ambition, and the pride of Kings.

Let us (fince Life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man

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A mighty maze! but not without a plan;

NOTES

VER. 1. Awake, my ST. JOHN !] The opening of this poem, in fifteen lines, is taken up in giving an account of the Subject; which, agreeable to the title, is an ESSAY ON MAN, or a Philofophical Enquiry into his Nature and End, his Paffions and Pursuits.

The Exordium relates to the whole work, of which the Efay on Man was only the first book. The 6th, 7th, and 8th lines allude to the fubject of this Essay, viz. the general Order and Defign of Providence; the Conftitution of the human Mind; the origin, use, and end of the

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