...degree, And height of bliss but height of chanty. 360 God loves from whole to parts : bat human eoul little fragments moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour,...

...delusive theories of education and social improvement. — Our great moral poet has justly observed, " ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,...

..."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...

...Principles, Feelings, Yearnings, arc as familiar as flowers in the gardens or stars in the firmament. " Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake," As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake." Man's selfish instincts demonstrate his origin. They lie at the foundation of his indestructible superstructure,...

...this is signified by eating of the tree of life. — Rev. ii. UNSELFISH LOVE. " True Beneficent Love serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbor,...

...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,...

...from appetite to appetite to hold together by a miraculous accident the whole social and cosmic order. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour first it will...

...The Complete Essays and other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Circles (p. 279) Pope, Alexander As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre...succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. The Complete Poetical Works Essays on Man Epistle IV, 1. 364 Shaw, George Bernard KNELLER: Just what...

...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...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will...