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I would have understood it on first pass if it said philosophy or philology instead of philanthropy.

• blacksqr 6y ago
  The author uses the words "theogony," "cosmogony" and "philanthropy" because these are all high-minded topics whose aims in practice are to explain and justify things as they are; Byron is ironically suggesting that morality in this world is confined to academic discourse, without any application in real life, where things remain dog-eat-dog.
  • tolbish 6y ago
    I know. I just think philanthropy does not fit with those topiphilology like philosophy/philology would.