The Substance of Faith Allied With Science; a Catechism for Parents And Teachers
The Substance of Faith Allied With Science; a Catechism for Parents And Teachers
Lodge Oliver Sir
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These things are good; and the only evil is a defect or deficiency of these good things. The power of assimilating food leaves the organ- ism open to the pangs of hunger, that is, of insuffi- cient nutriment, — ^manifestly only the absence of a good. Every rise involves the possibility of fall. Every advance seems to entail a corresponding penalty. In a world devoid of life there is no death; in a world without conscious beings there is no sin. In a world without affection there would be no gri...ef; and to a larger vision much of our grief may be needless: — "My son, the world is dark with griefs and graves, So dark that men cry out against the Heavens. Who knows but that the darkness is in man ?" A mechanical universe might be perfectly good. Every atom of matter perfectly obeys the forces Digitized by Google 52 NATURE OF EVIL acting upon it, and there is no error or wickedness or fault or rebellion in lifeless nature. Evil only begins when existence takes a higher turn. There is not even destruction or death in the inorganic world — only transformation.
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