of his or her own strengths and weaknesses is highly presumptuous, as it is neither their place to question God's judgment, nor is prudent to judge oneself more 'belonging' that another of God's creations.
To sustain his opinion that Man is better served being content with his God-given abilities and talents, Pope presents this theoretical question: "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,/All but the page prescribed, their present state;/From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:/Or who could suffer being here below?" (l. 77-80).
This quote reaffirms Pope's position that God created humans as He wanted them to be – they are perfect in God's eyes, which
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