“the Philosopher and even the Man of the world may be Born, as well as the Poet.”

Suggesting that worldly insight, like poetic talent, may be innate · Preface to Shakespeare, 1725

• Creativity
• Instinct
• Knowledge

“whatever is very good sense must have been common sense in all times; and what we call Learning, is but the knowledge of the sense of our predecessors.”

Connecting sound judgement with inherited human knowledge · Preface to The Works of Alexander Pope, 1717

• Knowledge
• Learning
• Tradition