SOURCE: “‘Steering betwixt extremes’: An Essay on Man,” in The Unbalanced Mind: Pope and the Rule of Passion, Harvester Press, 1986, pp. 64-94.
In the following essay, Ferguson links the dialectic of An Essay on Man to its poetic form, emphasizing philosophical and literary dimensions of the concept of discordia concors.
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