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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10), Poetry - Volume 2

Note 1200 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)

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The particular application of this to the several pursuits of men, and the general good resulting thence, falls also into the succeeding book.—Pope.

The "succeeding book" is the Moral Essays, which are almost entirely made up of satiric sketches. Pope dilated upon the evil resulting from "the mind's disease, the ruling passion," but barely touched upon "the general good."

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