...peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next, nil bumun racr: Wide, and more wide th' uVrflowings of the mind. Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kiud....

...of benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 48 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre...

...peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; ht, what course to prove (And sure : Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; 370 Earth...

...mov'da circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friends, parents, neighbours first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race. Wide and more -wide th' o'erflowings of the mind Take evVy creature in , of ev'ry kind. Earth smiles...

...virtuous mind to wake, as the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake . . . friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace; his country next; and next all human race— Pope) Amour propre comes closer to self-esteem, for it stresses pride, usually pardonable pride, in...

..."conglob'd" is a picture of a Newtonian universe, overflowing with particulars but emptied of God. God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from lndividual to the Whole — Pope, Essay on Man voral gravitation brings the social diagnosis of the...

...Eternal is saying some of the things that Alexander Pope says in An Essay on Man, in which he argues that "God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul / Must rise from Individual to the Whole" (Pope [1733] 1965, IV. 361-62). Blake, too, sometimes sees divine love as a universalized reflection...

...moved, a circle straight succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, kindred, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race." The kind reader may inquire — Is it possible to render the human spirit Harmonious ? Yes, — and...

...des Menschen liegt nicht im Erfassen der (göttlichen) Ordnung aller Dinge, sondern im Mitmenschen: „God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole."69 Wenn es aber bei Rousseau heißt, daß wir „erst eigentlich Menschen zu werden" beginnen,...

...benevolence receives its finest eighteenth-century expression in Pope's famous lines from An Essay on Man: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre...