In both to reason right is to submit. Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, 165 Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discomposed the mind. But all subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of life.[1051] 170 The gen'ral order,[1052] since the whole began, Is kept in nature, and is kept in man.[1053] [Sidenote: The unreasonableness of the complaints against Providence, and that to possess more faculties would make us miserable.] VI. What would this Man? now upward will he soar, And little less than angel, would be more![1054] Now looking downwards, just as grieved appears 175 To want the strength[1055] of bulls, the fur of bears.[1056] Made for his use, all creatures if he call,[1057] Say what their use, had he the pow'rs of all: Nature to these without profusion kind,[1058] The proper organs, proper pow'rs assigned; 180 Each seeming want compensated of course, Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force:[1059] All in exact proportion to the state;[1060] Nothing to add, and nothing to abate.[1061] Each beast, each insect, happy in its own:[1062] 185 Is Heav'n unkind to man, and man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleased with nothing, if not blessed with all?[1063] The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear.[1064] Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, 195 T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n?[1065] Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?[1066] 200 If nature thundered in his op'ning ears, And stunned him with the music of the spheres,[1067] How would he wish that heav'n had left him still The whisp'ring zephyr, and the purling rill? Who finds not Providence all good and wise, 205 Alike in what it gives, and what denies? [Sidenote: There is an universal order and gradation through the whole visible world, of the sensible and mental faculties, which causes the subordination of creature to creature, and of all creatures to man, whose reason alone countervails all the other faculties.]