Note 977 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
The last part of the verse is barbarously elliptical. The meaning is that all our reasonings respecting the end of man must be drawn from his station here, and to this station we must refer all that we learn respecting him. Since we can know nothing but what relates to our present condition, the doctrine of a future life is excluded.