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One thing is very certain, a certainty that we are 

 constantly forgetting or overlooking, namely, that 

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

 and that whatever we affirm or deny of the universe, 

 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. 



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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 wfiich 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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