The pale Boy-Senator yet tingling stands,
     And holds his breeches close with both his hands.
        Then thus. ‘Since Man from beast by Words is known, 
     Words are Man’s province, Words we teach alone.’

     Earlier we had noted the meaning of this theme for Cicero 
who regarded eloquence as an inclusive wisdom harmonizing 
our faculties, unifying all knowledge. Pope is here quite explicit 
in citing the destruction of this unity as deriving from word 
specialism and denudation. The theme of the denudation of 
consciousness we have followed continuously throughout the 
Renaissance. It is also the theme of Pope’s Dunciad . The Boy-
Senator continues:

     When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, 
     Points him two ways, the narrower is the better.