Note 1064 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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No self-confounding faculties to share, No senses stronger than his brain can bear.
This rejected couplet embodied a fancy from Lord Shaftesbury's Moralists that the leading qualities in any being are always provided at the expense of other organs, and that if man had been endowed with greater and more numerous bodily capacities his brain would have been starved.