never be learned; for in order to learn Science, we

begin with the correct statement, with harmony and

its Principle; and if man has lost his Principle and

its harmony, from evidences before him he is inca- [15]

pable of knowing the facts of existence and its con-

comitants: therefore to him evil is as real and eternal

as good, God! This awful deception is evil's umpire

and empire, that good, God, understood, forcibly

destroys. [20]

What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be