"All—for myself—seems ordered wise and well
Inside it,—what reigns outside, who can tell?"A
A: Francis Furini.
But as to the actual world, he can have no opinion, nor, from the good and evil that apparently play around him, can he deduce either
"Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
In each good or evil issue."B
B: La Saisiaz.
The moral government of the world is a subject, regarding which we are doomed to absolute ignorance. A theory that it is ruled by the "prince of the power of the air" has just as much, and just as little, validity as the more ordinary view held by religious people. Who needs be told
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