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 One thing is very certain, a certainty that we are 



constajitly forgetting or overlooking, namely, that 



man is a part of nature, of the sum total of things, 



and that whatever we afl&rm or deny of the imiverse, 



we affirm or deny of him. 



Only this morning I was saying to myself, "There 



is nothing human in the universe, all is unhuman,*' 



when I was brought up by the thought that the 



whole of humanity is a part of the universe; that 



man is as much a product of the earth as are the 



trees and the grass, and his genesis must involve, 



more or less, all the material forces, geologic and 



astronomic. 



In nature the good and the bad, the beautiful and 

 the ugly are not separated. They are such only to 

 man; all is in keeping with the impersonal laws 

 and forces. We call that evil which thwarts or in- 

 jures us, but nature is like a cloud that goes through 

 the cycle of change and remains the same. Good and 

 bad are irrelevant questions, just as upper and un- 

 der do not apply to the orbs in space. To our senses 

 it is all upper, but in reality the terms are meaning- 

 less away from the earth. 



In nature all is good, but, again, the terms "good" 

 and "bad" are meaningless with the "all." The 

 Cosmos is self-repaired, self-balanced, self-sup- 

 ported, and is all good or all bad, just as you elect. 



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