{"id":1893,"date":"2010-03-30T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:10:00","slug":"39-the-riddle-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/39-the-riddle-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"#39 The Riddle of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderingminstrels.appspot.com\/poems\/39.html\">Poem #39<\/a><\/strong>)  <strong>The Riddle of the World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Know then thyself, presume not God to scan<br \/>\nThe proper study of Mankind is Man.<br \/>\nPlaced on this isthmus of a middle state,<br \/>\nA Being darkly wise, and rudely great:<br \/>\nWith too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,<br \/>\nWith too much weakness for the Stoic&#8217;s pride,<br \/>\nHe hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;<br \/>\nIn doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast;<br \/>\nIn doubt his mind and body to prefer;<br \/>\nBorn but to die, and reas&#8217;ning but to err;<br \/>\nWhether he thinks to little, or too much;<br \/>\nChaos of Thought and Passion, all confus&#8217;d;<br \/>\nStill by himself, abus&#8217;d or disabus&#8217;d;<br \/>\nCreated half to rise and half to fall;<br \/>\nGreat Lord of all things, yet a prey to all,<br \/>\nSole judge of truth, in endless error hurl&#8217;d;<br \/>\nThe glory, jest and riddle of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Alexander  Pope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Poem #39) The Riddle of the World 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: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic&#8217;s pride, He hangs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/39-the-riddle-of-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#39 The Riddle of The World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}