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Quotation from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
“All 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:”
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, lines 289-292 (Gutenberg #2428: An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell's National Library, 1891))
The climax of the first epistle's argument for providence.
Citation: "All 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:" — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I, lines 289-292 (Gutenberg #2428: An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell's National Library, 1891)). (id an-essay-on-man-q4)
