The Philosophy of Evil: Showing Its Uses and Its Unavoidable Necessity, by a Series of Familiar Illustrations Drawn from a Philosophical Examination of the Most Startling Evils of Life; Interspersed with Moral, Interesting and Useful Reflections

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Evil: Showing Its Uses and Its Unavoidable Necessity, by a Series of Familiar Illustrations Drawn From a Philosophical Examination of the Most Startling Evils of Life; Interspersed With Moral, Interesting and Useful Reflections Several distinguished theologians have written on the subject, but they uniformly begin by referring to the fall of man, or otherwise assuming the thing to be proved, thus commencing the structure of their arguments in the clouds, and finishing it downwards to a point at which they abandon it, as an inscrutable mystery; or oblige their readers to do so.