A detailed examination of his mode of transmutation would be a curious study in the technical secrets of literary execution.

A specimen or two will sufficiently indicate the general character of Pope's method of constructing his essay.
The forty-third fragment of Bolingbroke is virtually a prose version of much of Pope's poetry.

A few phrases will exhibit the relation:-- Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, 'Tis ours to _trace Him only in our own_.
He who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds _compose one universe_, Observe how _system into system runs_, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us what we are.
But of this frame the bearings and _the ties_, The strong _connexions_, nice _dependencies_, _Gradations_ just, has thy pervading soul Looked through, or can a part contain the whole?
"The universe," I quote only a few phrases from Bolingbroke, "is an immense aggregate of systems.

Every one of these, _if we may judge by our own_, contains several, and every one of these again, _if we may judge by our own_, is made up of a multitude of different modes of being, animated and inanimated, thinking and unthinking ...

but all concurring in one common system....