Question

Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man argues that

the universe is rational and orderly.
nature is full of puzzling mysteries.
humans should not try to understand the world.
man has no control over the chaos of society.

Answer 1

the universe is rational and orderly.

Pope’s poem defends a divinely ordered “great chain of being,” arguing that apparent imperfections fit into a larger rational plan—summed up in the line often paraphrased as “Whatever is, is right.”