Sunday, August 30, 2009

I finished reading the section from Alexander Pope's "Epistle" and section ten blatantly reveals the authors intention. It's scary to me though because it seems as if the lie he portrays is masked in lingo....

"All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good: And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT."

I'll five you that discord could be "harmony not understood" as we often don't see the Lords' big picture however, discord could very well be discord and not harmony. Evil is evil, there is no getting around it and whatever is, is NOT right, Romans 3:23 as well as in life when kids simply do the wrong thing are proof of that.

Excerpt taken from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" included in The Norton Anthology Western Lit. book Eighth Edition Vol. 2 Copyright 2006

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