COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



the wicked engineer who has neglected his 

 boiler, but also the innocent children peacefully 

 playing on the deck overhead. 



** Streams will not curb their pride. 

 The just man not to entomb. 

 Nor lightnings go aside 



To leave his virtues room." 



But the flood and the earthquake, like the 

 wickedness of men, in so far as the arrange- 

 ments of society are not yet adequate for curb- 

 ing it, must be accepted with resignation as part 

 and parcel of the events which the constitution 

 of our universe necessitates. Such evils, which 

 right living will not guard against, furnish no 

 excuse for ceasing to shun the committal of 

 wilful wrongs, which detract to a far greater ex- 

 tent from the fulness of life of ourselves and 

 our fellow creatures. The sanction by which 

 tl]e religion of the scientific inquirer enforces 

 its ethical code is the certainty that maladjust- 

 ment will be followed, always by the suff^er- 

 ing or degradation of the wrong-doer himself, 

 and usually by the sufl^ering of others who are 

 innocent. And while in this respect there is 

 no essential difference between the Cosmic and 

 the Anthropomorphic theories, on their ethi- 

 cal sides, there is another respect in which the 

 sanction recognized by the former is far more 

 powerful, and must in time become far more 

 effective, than the sanction recognized by the 

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