Thomas Malthus：An Essay on the Principle of Population, Excerpt 177

The sorrows of life necessary to soften and humanize the heart--The excitement of social sympathy often produce characters of a higher order than the mere possessors of talents--Moral evil probably necessary to the production of moral excellence--Excitements from intellectual wants continually kept up by the infinite variety of nature, and the obscurity that involves metaphysical subjects--The difficulties in revelation to be accounted for upon this principle--The degree of evidence which the scriptures contain, probably, best suited to the improvements of the human faculties, and the moral amelioration of mankind--The idea that mind is created by excitements seems to account for the existence of natural and moral evil.

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