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To the READER.

HE Author has been induced to publish these Epistles separately for two Reasons; The one, that he might not impose upon the Publick too much at once of what he thinks incorrect; The other, that by this Method he might profit of its Judgement on the Parts, in order to make the Whole less unworthy of it.

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ESSAY on MAN.

EPISTLE II.

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NOW then Thy-felf, prefume not God to fcan;

The only Science of Mankind is Man.

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Plac'd on this Ifthmus of a Middle State,
A Being darkly wife, and rudely great:
With too much Knowledge for the Sceptic Side,
With too much Weakness for a Stoic's Pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest,
To deem himself a Part of God, or Beast;