The Making of the Universe; Evolution the Continuous Process Which Derives the Finite from the Infinite - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Xjl ing when mankind was given full responsibility for its own conduct. Without mental and moral responsibility, neither good nor evil in the highest sense of those terms could have existed. Bitter as the resulting evils have been the values have been many, many fold greater, and evil has its limits, its impassable barriers. The outlook into the wrong side of things is not agreeable, yet it may be best to consider its real import before we turn the shield. Certainly nine-tenths of all suffering has been needlessly caused by man. Real evils are the wrongs done to one's self or to others. The pain and all other phases of suffering are the barriers put up as warnings against repetitions of the wrongdoing, and the wrong intentions whether or not carried on to the end, are the responsible sum and substance of the deed. Intentions may not injure others as deeds can, but evil intentions, hindered in outlet, may drag down one's inmost self to an even deeper degradation. All sin is some form of weak and contemptible meanness. Theft and robbery of material things, however hard and unjust to the owner of them, is not a robbery of Nature. The theft transfers the goods which it cannot destroy. Neither fire, nor water, nor any process of attempted destruction can destroy the indestructible. It changes their places, modes, forms, properties of all changeable sorts; but the real substances, as changeless entities remain intact. The most infamous kinds of injury to others arise from sheer injustice, the jealousies, the low crafts that try to undermine another character. Whatever the effect upon the other, it blackens the character of one's own soul so deeply that the scar never will be entirely washed away. What is done, good or evil, is done for eternity to a living being who l...
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