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

Note 999 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)

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Bolingbroke, Fragments 43: "We ought to consider the world no otherwise than as a little wheel in our solar system; nor our solar system any otherwise than as a little but larger wheel in the immense machine of the universe; and both the one and the other necessary perhaps to the motion of the whole."—Wakefield.

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