APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
The conJusion of the whole matte) seems to be that, if Ortnu/.d has noi bad bis way in this world, neitliei lias Abriman. Pessimism is as little, consonant with the facts of scntioiii existence as optimism. If wo desire to represent the course of nature iu terms of human thought, and assume that it was intended to be that which it is, w<» must say that its governing principle is intellectual' and not moral; that it is a materialised logical process, accompanied by pleasures and pains the incidence of. which in the majority of cases, lias not the slightest reference to moral desert. That rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust, and that those upon whom the Tower of Siioam fell were .no worse than their neighbours, seem to be Oriental modes of expressing the same conclusion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1932, Page 1
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