{"id":1692,"date":"2012-06-05T00:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2012-06-05T00:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T07:38:22","slug":"essay-on-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/06\/05\/essay-on-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay on Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some favourite lines from Alexander Pope&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2428\/2428-h\/2428-h.htm'>Essay on Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan;<br \/>\nThe proper study of mankind is man.<br \/>\nPlaced on this isthmus of a middle state,<br \/>\nA being darkly wise, and rudely great:<br \/>\nWith too much knowledge for the sceptic side,<br \/>\nWith too much weakness for the stoic\u2019s pride,<br \/>\nHe hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;<br \/>\nIn doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;<br \/>\nIn doubt his mind or body to prefer;<br \/>\nBorn but to die, and reasoning but to err;<\/p>\n<p>Learn each small people\u2019s genius, policies,<br \/>\nThe ant\u2019s republic, and the realm of bees;<br \/>\nHow those in common all their wealth bestow,<br \/>\nAnd anarchy without confusion know;<\/p>\n<p>Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,<br \/>\nBut looks through Nature up to Nature\u2019s God;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some favourite lines from Alexander Pope&#8217;s Essay on Man. Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/06\/05\/essay-on-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}