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small importance, look with unconcern upon the situa- 

 tion and sufferings of creatures formed after his own 

 image? Surely not. Reflections like these would not 

 allow me to despair. I started up ; and, disregarding 

 both hunger and fatigue, traveled forward, assured that 

 relief was at hand, and was not disappointed." Such 

 views of the universe and of its Creator infuse strength 

 into the human soul, and give a vigor to human charac- 

 ter which is impossible otherwise. For the good-order- 

 ing of human life they are infinitely above all Monistic 

 speculations and theories of Evolution, which belittle 

 or lose sight of the individual in a romantic sentiment 

 respecting primordial and progressive development of 

 all. 



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