Humans are extraordinarily fixed and limited animals whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organization that anything decent can be got out of them.
Humans are by nature good.
It is only bad laws and customs that have suppressed them. Remove all these and the infinite possibilities of humans would have a chance. September 12 Alexander Pope. Begin by reading the Norton introduction to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century and the brief biography of Pope. October 1 William Blake .