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California State Library at Sep 19, 2022 08:19 PM
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purposes – & we run into absurd-
-ity the moment we lose sight
of this. The problem was not
how much phys. [physical] beauty could be
produced – nor how many
human creatures – for wastes &
deformities might have been diminished
& the Earth made much larger.

Can not reconcile ourselves to
all the destructions, wastes, deform-
-ities – decay – & death we see –
but on the ground of their
necessity for some good end
– their moral uses.

cams_benton_b028_f003_027_002

(2) [centered]

purposes – & we run into absurd-
-ity the moment we lose sight
of this. The problem was not
how much phys. [physical] beauty could be
produced – nor how many
human creatures – for wastes &
deformities might have been diminished
& the Earth made much larger.

Can not reconcile ourselves to
all the destructions, wastes, deform-
-ities – decay – & death we see –
but on the ground of their
necessity for some good end
– their moral uses.