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may still ask, was it necessary that there should be 

 such an antagonism, that the higher nature could 

 reach its fullest development only through the labor, 

 and pain, and suffering, of the lower nature ? We do 

 not believe such an antagonism was necessary, al- 

 though we must acknowledge that it does exist. It 

 does not come within the scope of these lectures to 

 discuss the theories of these antagonisms, h<>\v 

 they were produced, nor their ultimate tendency. 

 We are content to take man and the world as we 

 find them, and attempt to show that this physical 

 antagonism works out for man in his present imper- 

 fect state a higher good. 



