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though very often the erroneous belief is based 

 upon a more conscientious study of the facts than 

 the right belief. 



If we are to assume that anybody has designedly 

 set this wonderful universe going, it is perfectly 

 clear to me that he is no more entirely benevolent 

 and just in any intelligible sense of the words, than 

 that he is malevolent and unjust. Infinite benevolence 

 need not have invented pain and sorrow at all 

 infinite malevolence would very easily have deprived 

 us of the large measure of content and happiness 

 that falls to our lot. After all, Butler's "Analogy" 

 is unassailable, and there is nothing in theological 

 dogmas more contradictory to our moral sense, than 

 is to be found in the facts of nature. From which, 

 however, the Bishop's conclusion that the dogmas 

 are true doesn't follow. 



It appears to me that if every person who is 

 engaged in an industry had access to instruction in 

 the scientific principles on which that industry is 

 based ; in the mode of applying these principles to 

 practice ; in the actual use of the means and appli- 

 ances employed ; in the language of the people who 

 know as much about the matter as we do ourselves ; 

 and lastly, in the art of keeping accounts, Technical 

 Education would have done all that can be required 

 of it. 



Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not 

 impossible that over-instruction may be worse. 



