...of Pope here, who in the Essay on Man invokes an absolute and infinitely unknowable beyond: Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state [. . .] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd...

...it we would be even more miserable than we are. Ignorance is another indispensable resource. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer...

...has been kindly and happily for us drawn over the future. "Heaven from all creatures hides the beak of fate, All but the page prescribed their present state, From brutes, what men, from men, what angels know, Or who could suffer bring here below." It not only becomes one's duty to be always ready...

...terrible anxiety that consciousness produces. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today," Pope writes, "Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? / Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food, / And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." But neither is man in all ways materially...

...English poet Alexander Pope, who wrote this more than 300 years ago: "Heaven from all creatures hide the book of fate/ All but the page prescribed, their present state. ""'2 A Gallup pole conducted in the United States in 1969 found that one in five Americans believe...