Read the lines from An Essay on Man. Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: These lines reflect which idea common during the Enlightenment.
A. With too much knowledge for the sceptic side.
B. With too much weakness for the stoic’s pride.
C. Caesura enjambment blank verse open form free."