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negative and evil elements, which are peculiar to the 

 organic world (the subordination of everything to 

 self-preservation and individual ends), the feelings 

 which are appropriate only to that in it which is 

 universal ; we have carried on to the ends, the 

 joyful admiration with which the means affect us 

 doing -^iplence to our souls therein. Nature is 

 beautiful, and in its organic applications we see its 

 beauty ; self-ends are evil, utterly and for ever, 

 and in the organic world we see nature's beauty per- 

 verted to that evil. 



Thus, there rightly arise in us the mingled feel- 

 ings of delight and disgust, of admiration and of 

 loathing, with which we look on the animal creation. 

 Each of these feelings has its perfect justification, and 

 its perfect place : the joy and admiration should em- 

 brace all nature ; the loathing concentrate itself 

 unchecked upon the purposes to which in the animal 

 world nature is debased. An enemy hath done this : 

 it is not life, this mere self-centred isolation ; it is 

 the mockery of it: an inverse, perverted life, laying 

 its cruel bondage on our own souls too. But we 

 hope for deliverance. 



