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Man's Shortcomings And Sins Are All Due To The Substance Of The Body And Not To Its Form; While All His Merits Are Exclusively Due To His Form.

We Suffer From The Evils Which We, By Our Own Free Will, Inflict On Ourselves And Ascribe Them To God, Who Is Far From Being Connected With Them!

Do Not Imagine That These Most Difficult Problems Can Be Thoroughly Understood By Any One Of Us.

Even When A Person Suffers Pain In Consequence Of A Thorn Having Entered Into His Hand, Although It Is At Once Drawn Out, It Is A Punishment That Has Been Inflicted On Him, And The Least Pleasure He Enjoys Is A Reward; All This Is Meted Out By Strict Justice; As Is Said In The Scripture, "all His Ways Are Judgement" (deut. Xxxii. 4); We Are Only Ignorant Of The Working Of That Judgement.

For The Elements Have The Property Of Moving Back To Their Place In A Straight Line, But They Have No Properties Which Would Cause Them To Remain Where They Are, Or To Move Otherwise Than In A Straight Line. The Rectilinear Motions Of These Four Elements When Returning To Their Original Place Are Of Two Kinds, Either Centrifugal, Viz., The Motion Of The Air And The Fire; Or Centripedal, Viz., The Motion Of The Earth, And The Water; And When The Elements Have Reached Their Original Place, They Remain At Rest.