...; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; • . JL All partial evil, universal good ; And, spite of Pride,...reason's spite, One truth is clear — WHATEVER is, is RIGHT. — POITL, SECTION XXI. - ,. ? Confidence in Divine protection. How are thy servants blest,...

...is but art unknown to thee ; All chance direction which thou runs' t, not see; All discord harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good,...reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is is right." That good arises in many cases out of evil is a proposition maintained by almost all moralists...

...general result drawn from the entire passage, which is too long to be quoted, is no less so : — In spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT. If every thing be right at present, there is no necessity for a day of correction or retribution...

...nature is but art unknown to thee All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good;...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. An essay on Man. Alexander Pope There are still those entities that, either by clinical art...

...is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony, not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever 1s, is RIGHT." (1.289-94) The metrically tortured lines that precede Keats's closing couplet anticipate...

...to survival is good; the claim sounds suspiciously like the moral impasse of Pope's pungent couplet, And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Other critics contend that evolutionary ethics commits the naturalistic fallacy, moving from...

...not where Pope stood, even when he famously concluded Epistle i of An Essay on Man with these lines: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT. 10 This, it must be understood, is an ultimate statement concluding a poem in which a great...

...is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. (i. 285) This doctrine should be read in its context, as part of Pope's whole work, An Essay on Man.1 As...

...is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good:...reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." the "naturalistic fallacy" in ethics,5 where some think, for example, that "good" is just what...

...is but An, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony, not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good:...Reason's spite. One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is RIGHT." Although not all theodicies are politically regressive (obviously, Voltaire s parody was clearly...