And evermore the Star of Fear dwells with Lucifer, and the Star of Love keeps vigil in heaven.
ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
By Lord Brougham
A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.
The question which has more than, any other harassed metaphysical reasoners, but especially theologians, and upon which it is probable that no very satisfactory conclusion will ever be reached by the human faculties, is the Origin and Sufferance of Evil.
Its existence being always assumed, philosophers have formed various theories for explaining it, but they have always drawn very different inferences from it.