This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...propagation. But when all is said, the problem remains. This problem is, why should pain exist? Why is not the world one system of unmixed well-being, pleasure, and happiness? The Triple Answer Facing the facts as they are, three answers can be formulated--answers of different degrees of complexity. We may call them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...propagation. But when all is said, the problem remains. This problem is, why should pain exist? Why is not the world one system of unmixed well-being, pleasure, and happiness? The Triple Answer Facing the facts as they are, three answers can be formulated--answers of different degrees of complexity. We may call them the Materialist, the Theosophist, and the Christian answer. The Materialist answer is simplest of all. The essential laws of matter and force with their developments have resulted thus; and that is an end of the question. Observe the completeness of the answer--just because the suppositions of the system are so simple. There is no God in the question, no need to explain how evil can proceed from the divine nature, no question of squaring with justice or goodness or wisdom. The Materialist owns no God. Matter and force account for everything. Before passing on, let us draw a moral from this. The moral is that the simplicity of a hypothesis is no real criterion of its truth. A bold, sweeping assumption which gets rid of a God, gets rid of all the difficulties involved in a belief in God. If simplicity is a criterion of truth, the Materialist wins the prize. The second answer is that of the Theosophist. The world is a product of the divine essence acting by necessary energy. But the product is in some way identified with the divine essence, and therefore in some sense part of it. The implication is that the Supreme, who is identified with the all, includes evil mixed with good. Why should this be? It is no answer to fight shy of the world "evil" and to speak of opposite and conflicting tendencies. Why should there be these opposite and conflicting tendencies in the divine? Why should the divine, acting by the essential laws of divine bein...
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