"In his seminally optimistic 1734 poem, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope wrote the famous line, ""Hope springs eternal in the (what)""?"
Hope exist before even the most talented leaders can lead change. Given such conditions, Mattox proposes a change management theory around hope, suggesting that a leader can lead change and shape culture within a community or organization by creating a "hopescape" and by harnessing the hope system. A classic reference to hope which has entered modern language is the concept that "Hope springs eternal" taken from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man", the phrase reading "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always "to be" blest:" Another popular reference, "Hope is the thing with feathers," is from a
An Essay on Man In response, Pope declares the species of man to be a "fool", absent of knowledge and plagued by "ignorance" in spite of all the progress achieved through science. Pope argues that humanity should make a study of itself, and not debase the spiritual essence of the world with earthly science, since the two are diametrically opposed to one another: man should "presume not God to scan". An Essay on Man An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a