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interested reader to the form of them presented in my 

 sixth essay. 



(4) The hope of the real and lasting improvement of this 

 present world by our moral endeavour. With lack of this, 

 there would be moral discouragement, and the chief use of 

 this life would be merely to find the means of departing out 

 of it ; righteousness could only be " in heaven," — in " the 

 hereafter." This added essential to moral effort Personal 

 Idealism supplies, with assurance of hope, in its indivisible 

 union of the eternal and the temporal worlds ; a union in 

 which the eternal is the unitary and governing whole, and 

 the temporal the potentially governed part. More than this, 

 indeed much more, and of higher interest, might be said ; 

 but more I must here for lack of room forbear to say, and 

 must again refer readers to the fuller exposition in my first 

 and seventh essays. 



(5) The validity of the belief in the solvability of the enigma 

 of Evil. We can have no hope in moral endeavour in a 

 world whose Source and Controller we cannot clear of the 

 suspicion of intending or causing evil, or of being in collu- 

 sion with it, or even of conniving at it. We have seen, 

 above, how all the systems that work from a single Efficient 

 Cause hopelessly fail to attain this clearance of the Cause. 

 I have already hinted at the contrasted success of the new 

 Pluralism. Its God has no part whatever in the causation 

 of evil, but the whole of evil, both natural and moral, falls 

 into the causation, either natural or moral, that belongs to the 

 minds other than God. They alone carry in their being the 

 world of sense, wherein alone evil occurs or wrong-doing can 

 be made real. This evil pertaining to the non-divine is more- 

 over capable of cure, through the immanence of each being's 

 eternal principle of good and the presence to it of the di- 

 vine Friend and Saviour. So we pass to the concluding 

 condition. 



(6) The validity of the belief in God. That is, the belief 



