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pope's 1st. Epistle Presumptuous Man, the reason wouldst thou find Why form'd so weak, so little & so blind? First if thou canot the harder reason guess Why form'd no weaker, blinder, & no less? Ask of thy Mother Earth, why oaks are made Taller & stronger than the weeds they shade Or ask of yonder, argent feilds above Why Joves satellites are less than Jove? Of systems possible if 'tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best; Where all must fall or not coherent be And all that rises, rise in due degree; Then in the scale of reas'ning life 'tis plain There must be somewhere such a rank as Man And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) So only this, if God has plac'd him wrong?
