CONCLUSION 



urges them upwards, the life of every man having 

 a credit balance on the side of happiness. 



16. Therefore beneficence is the keynote of the 

 history of the world and of man. (This proves the 

 beneficence of man's Creator.) 



17. Man, moreover, is conscious of the su- 

 periority of his soul and as he becomes civilized 

 he becomes humane, i. e. 9 consciously beneficent 

 towards all life in his thoughts and actions. 



18. Thus man becomes more Godlike age by 

 age, and is by this process destined to complete 

 his evolution in power and purity and to rejoin 

 God. 



19. Thus are science and religion united. 



[As I have pointed out, the only link in this 

 argument which is not logically self-evident is 

 No. 3 ; because, though some persons who seem to 

 imagine that they hold a brief for "suffering 

 humanity " against his Creator would contradict 

 No. 15, every man knows in his own heart that 

 his own balance of happiness in life is on the right 

 side. Therefore the only ground on which my con- 

 clusion can be assailed is that, when you accident- 

 ally brush off the green film from a rotten paling 

 with your coat-sleeve you cause hundreds of thou-^ u ^ 

 sands of plants to know that they feel pain:, 

 which, as Euclid would say, is absurd.] 



H8S] 



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