EACH FOR ITS OWN SAKE 



temperance, greed, cheating, implies a different 

 mankind, and a different mankind implies a differ- 

 ent system of things. 



The problem of evil is the problem of life; no evil, 

 no life. The world is thus made. Nature is not half 

 good and half bad; she is wholly good, or wholly 

 bad, according to our relation to her. Fire and flood 

 are bad when they master us, and good when we 

 master and control them. Great good has come out 

 of war, and great evil. The evil always tends to drop 

 out or be obliterated, as the path of cyclones and 

 earthquakes tend to be overgrown and forgotten. 

 Burned cities often rise from their ashes to new life. 

 The effects of evil are finally obliterated; malignant 

 forces have their day, benignant forces go on for- 

 ever. The world of life, let me repeat, would not be 

 here were not the balance of the account of good 

 and evil on the side of the good, or if good did not 

 come out of evil. 



Life is recuperative; if it falls down, it picks itself 

 up again. If a state is devastated by war, in time the 

 cities and towns are rebuilt, and the ranks of peace 

 and industry refilled, though the growth and civili- 

 zation of that country may have had a terrible set- 

 back, and the whole progress of the race be re- 

 tarded. Evil perishes. The terrible World War, set 

 going by Germany, has depleted the wealth, the 

 life, the well-being of the whole European world, 

 but as the scars it made upon the landscape will in 



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