The most popular passages were certain purple patches, not arising very spontaneously or with much relevance, but also showing something more than the practised rhetorician.

The "poor Indian" in one of the most highly-polished paragraphs-- Who thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company, intrudes rather at the expense of logic, and is a decidedly conventional person.

But this passage has a certain glow of fine humanity and is touched with real pathos.

A further passage or two may sufficiently indicate his higher qualities.

In the end of the third epistle Pope is discussing the origin of government and the state of nature, and discussing them in such a way as to show conclusively that he does not in the least understand the theories in question or their application.
His state of Nature is a sham reproduction of the golden age of poets, made to do duty in a scientific speculation.