SOURCE: "System, the Divided Mind, and the Essay on Man," in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 479-94.
In the essay below, Cutting-Gray and Swearingen reinterpret An Essay on Man, stating that the poem anticipates modern ideas about human nature.
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