It was really hard for me to get a general understanding of Pope's Essay on Man.  I did some research and your right it's hard to identify with.  I'm not religious myself but maybe i'm philosophically ignorant or something.  I like how you broke the epistles down and explained each of them.  I understand what Pope was saying but I don't understand it as a whole or what point he was trying to prove.  I do think some more research should be done on it.  Maybe we don't know enough about it.  This is a break through though in philosophy and not the norm of it's time.  I think what hurt Pope was putting it in a poem form. I think it should be preserved because it went against ideas of its time and is unique.  Do you think the poem was ethical by any means?  I'm not getting that.