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I Do Not Believe That A World Without Evil, Preferable In Order To Ours, Is Possible; Otherwise It Would Have Been Preferred. It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted. The Combination Of All The Tendencies To The Good Has Produced The Best; But As There Are Goods That Are Incompatible Together, This Combination And This Result Can Introduce The Destruction Of Some Good, And As A Result Some Evil.

If You Have A Clear Idea Of A Soul, You Will Have A Clear Idea Of A Form; For It Is Of The Same Genus, Though A Different Species.

All The Different Classes Of Beings Which Taken Together Make Up The Universe Are, In The Ideas Of God Who Knows Distinctly Their Essential Gradations, Only So Many Ordinates Of A Single Curve So Closely United That It Would Be Impossible To Place Others Between Any Two Of Them, Since That Would Imply Disorder And Imperfection. Thus Men Are Linked With The Animals, These With The Plants And These With The Fossils Which In Turn Merge With Those Bodies Which Our Senses And Our Imagination Represent To Us As Absolutely Inanimate.

God's Relation To Spirits Is Not Like That Of A Craftsman To His Work, But Also Like That Of A Prince To His Subjects.

The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.