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with its petty agitations and calamities, is a zero except as filling its infinitesimal place; accepting his little utility as his entire treasure. He will see that though his God would not "really" (in a certain sense,) adapt means to ends, it is nevertheless quite true that there are relations among phenomena which finite intelligence must interpret, and truly interpret, as such adaptations; and he will macarize himself for his own bitterest griefs, and bless God for the law of growth, with all the fighting it imposes upon him,—Evil, i.e. what it is man's duty to fight, being one of the major perfections of the Universe. In that fight,