Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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    and good, the martyr’s pains, and the patriot’s despair, what are all these but incidents of an evolution of superior being which has been pre- arranged and set forward in independent action, free within a certain limit, but in the main con- strained, through primordial law, to go on ever brightening and perfecting, yet never, while the present dispensation of nature shall last, to be quite perfect ! The sex passion in like manner leads to great evils; but the evils are only an exception from the vast mass of good connected with this affection. Providence has seen it necessary to make very ample provision for the preservation and utmost possible extension of all species. The aim seems to be to diffuse existence as widely as possible, to fill up every vacant piece of space with some sen- tient being to be a vehicle of enjoyment. Hence this passion is conferred in great force. But the relation between the number of beings, and the means of supporting them, is only on the footing of general law. There may be occasional discre- pancies between the laws operating for the mul- tiplication of individuals, and the laws operating to supply them with the means of subsistence, and evils will be endured in consequence, even in our
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