...most wisely concealed from his view, the well known lines of Pope, may serve as no unmerited rebuke : "Go wondrous creature! mount where science guides, Go measure earth, weigh air, and slate the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old time and regulate the sun ;...

...humble as ourself, we would counsel him to obey at once the injunction of the Poet: "Go teach Almighty wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself and be a fool!" At any rate, when he attacks Universalism again, we advise him to ascertain to a certainty whereof...

...CO 80302. "Co wond'roug creature, mount where science guides. Go. measure earth, weigh air and slate the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run. Correct old time, and regulate the sun." Pope's Euay on Man The atomic time scale at the National Bureau of Standards, AT(NBS), depends upon...

...middle state, A Being darkly wise and rudely great. . . . The glory, jest and riddle of the world. . . . Go, wondrous Creature; Mount where Science guides,...orbs to run. Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun. What had happened in the space of a generation to allow such a generous and highly well-received burst...

...who applied physics to many non-scientific disciplines as if it were the one and only eternal truth. Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides...Wisdom how to rule Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!15 Pope's satire belongs to the Age of Reason, and it was a rational protest against unbalanced...

...account of these conditions in his Essay on Man as he sent Homo sapiens off in pursuit of his destiny. Go, wondrous creature, mount where Science guides,...orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun. This Newtonian world, however, has been irrevocably superseded by relativity and quantum theories....

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...prey to all: Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool! Ambivalence in evaluating the human condition is seen too in Rousseau's declaration, part of his Profession...

...seeing Akenside's poem as a denial of the Fall and its results. 89-91: cf. Pope, Essay on Man 2.19-20: "Go, wond'rous creature! mount where Science guides,...Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides." The scientist's contribution to aesthetic pleasure is discussed in detail, Pleasures 2.97-135. 91-94:...

...Cain's exploration of the cosmos under Lucifer's guidance, could easily have been suggested by Pope: Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,...Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; . . . Go, soar with Plato to th 'empyreal sphere, To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;...