DUALISM OF BRAHMANICAL AND ZOROASTRIAN PHILOSOPHERS. 29 
_J. S. Mill appears to be an “‘ Ethical Dualist, or Pluralist,” in 
assuming that the Creator must have been limited by one or more 
opposing forces. He seems to consider that we have faculties and 
materials sufficient to warrant this inference. 
But is it not probable that the minute portion of the Universe 
within our cognisance should suggest ideas which a view of the 
whole would show to be erroneous ? 
It is surely conceivable that, as Good and Evil are to us corre- 
lative ideas, the highest good could not be produced in finite 
beings, except by actual acquaintance with evil; and that men are 
now passing through that zone of evil in the course of the evolu- 
tion of their highest good. 
It may be that to complain that this highest good is unattainable 
without the experience of evil is tantamount to complaining that 
Omnipotence cannot work contradictions. 
The History of this World to this time may be a minute fraction, 
both in time and space, of the history of the Universe; and what 
is an enigma, if we assume the fragment to be the whele, might be 
seen to be a necessary portion of the scheme, could we comprehend 
the whole in our view. 
If our existence, indeed, is supposed to terminate with this life 
there seems no room for the idea of a good and just Creator; and 
the difficulty of forming that idea is immensely increased if it 
must be harmonised with the perpetuity of evil. 
