bro বিবিধ প্ৰবন্ধ-দ্বিতীয় ভাগ আচরণের পক্ষ সমর্থনা করিতে আপনাদিগকে যোগ্য বিবেচনা করিয়াছেন, তঁহাদিগের মধ্যে র্যাহারা মতবৈপরীতাশূন্য, তাহারা এই সিদ্ধান্ত হইতে নিস্তার পাইবার জন্য, হৃদয়কে কঠিন ভাবাপন্ন করিয়া স্থির করিয়াছেন যে, দুঃখ অশুভ নহে। তাহারা বলেন যে, ঈশ্বরকে দয়াময় বলায় এমত বুঝায় না যে, মানুয্যের সুখ তাহার অভিপ্ৰেত ; তাহাতে বুঝায় যে, s a -· ·sa· of lives, and does it 1) all the modes, violent or insidious, in which the worst human beings take the lives of one another. Nature impales men, breaks them as if on the whe cl, casts them to be devoured by wild beasts, burns them to death, crushes them with stones like the first Christian Martyr, starves them with hunger, freezes the in with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exhalation and has hundreds of other hideous deaths, such as ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercillous disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently with the mea nest and worst i upon those who are engaged in the highest and worthiest enterprise, and often as thc direct consequence of the noblest acts ; and it night almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows down those on whose existence hangs the Weil-being of a whole people, perhaps of the prospects of the human race for - incrat 1 » ns to conne, with as litt le compunction as those whose deat til 1s a relief to themselves and to those under their no vious influence. Such are nature's dea ings with life. Even when she does not intend to kill, she infilcts the same tortures in apparent wantonness In the clumsy provision which she has made to that Derpetual renewal of animal life, rendered necessary by the prompt termination she puts to it in every individual instance, no human being ever comes into the world but another human being is literally stretched on the rack for hours or days, not unfrequently issuing in death Next to taking life (equal to 1t acording to a high authority) is taking the meals by which we live , and nature does this too on the largest scale, and with the most callous in difference. A Slingle hurricane destroys the hopes of a season, a flight ocusts or an inundation de solates a district, a t fing chemical change in an dible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea, like band tt, seize and appropriate the Wealth of the rich and the little all of the poor w "h the same accompaniments of stripping, wounding, and killing as their human prototypes. Every thing I short which the worst men commit either against life or property is perpetrated on a large scale by natur il agents. Nature has Noyades more fatal than those of Carrier ; her explosion of fire damp are as destructive as human artillery; her plague and choker a far surpass the poison cups of the Borglas...... Anarchy and the Reign of Terror are over matched in injustice, ruin, and death by a hurricane and a pestilence.'- ill on Nature, p. p. 28-31.
