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shall be compelled to ask why this harmony 

 should not be both absolutely and relatively 

 perfect, and why any discords and defects should 

 exist? for that theory makes the Creator per- 

 sonally responsible for them. But the theory 

 of Evolution accounts for both the harmonies 

 and the discords of Nature, and while recon- 

 ciling both with the infinite beneficence of the 

 Almighty, involves us in hardly any real moral 

 difficulties. 



