Human Temperaments, Vol. 1: Studies in Character (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Especially Woman, as a witty commentator has added. As Pope stole the whole of the shallow philosophy of his most celebrated essay from Bolingbroke, so he stole three-quarters of this, its most Often qu6ted couplet, from others - half his first line from Pythagoras, and all the second from Warburton. From such a pilferer one would not expect much that is original, but the Essay contains one doctrine that is undoubtedly original with Pope, and it is also undoubtedly erroneous: the doctrine, once universally accepted and now almost forgotten, Of the ruling passion.

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