[1061] Vid. Epist. iii. ver. 79, etc., and ver. 109, etc.—Pope.
[1062] That is, in its own state or condition.
[1063] First edition:
Each beast, each insect, happy as it can,
Is heav'n unkind to nothing but to man?
Shall man, shall reasonable man alone
Be or endowed with all, or pleased with none?
[1064] First edition:
No self-confounding faculties to share,
No senses stronger than his brain can bear.
This rejected couplet embodied a fancy from Lord Shaftesbury's Moralists that the leading qualities in any being are always provided at the expense of other organs, and that if man had been endowed with greater and more numerous bodily capacities his brain would have been starved.
[1065] First edition:
What the advantage if his finer eyes
Study a mite, not comprehend the skies.
The second edition has some further variations: