uot;A mighty maze" – expressing the Pope's liability to Hobbes's philosophy, that whenever you cannot see what Lord has done, you would not believe in him, but on the other hand the author shows immediately his ambiguous and doubting nature with the sentence "But not without a plan", implying that everything has its place in the God's divine and distinct from the ordinary people and their minds plan. He is wandering about in the middle of the Philosophical trends, whether to accept the materialistic "A wild, where weeds and flow 'rs promiscuous shoot" or to risk with a "Garden tempting with forbidden fruit".
I believe that the philosopher caused greater effect on Alexander Pope is Rene Descartes. Descartes stated: "In our search for the direct road to truth, we should busy ourselves with no object about which we cannot attain a certitude equal to that of the demonstration of arithmetic and geometry.&q
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