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Pope describes the vastness of the chain as “from Infinite to thee, / From thee to nothing” (1.240-241), from God all the way down to “what no eye can see” (1.239), implying the vastness of God’s design, as well. Pope also warns that, “Where, one step broken, the great scale’s destroyed: / From Nature’s chain whatever link you strike, / Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.” (1.244-246). Here, Pope emphasizes on the importance of man avoiding causing any type of disruption or interruption in the Great Chain, and as he had mentioned in stanza three, no animal had ever attempted to question God’s intent through science or philosophy, implying that if the chain were to ever break, man would most certainly be at
