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The Greeks Had Considered Hope The Final Evil In Pandora's Box. They Also Gave Us An Image Of Perfect Nobility: A Human Being Lovingly Doing Her Duty To Another Human Being Despite All Threats, And Going To Her Death With Pride And Courage, Not Deterred By Any Hope - Antigone.

It Was Also Hegel Who Established The View That The Different Philosophic Systems That We Find In History Are To Be Comprehended In Terms Of Development And That They Are Generally One-sided Because They Owe Their Origins To A Reaction Against What Has Gone Before.

Success Is No Proof Of Virtue. In The Case Of A Book, Quick Acclaim Is Presumptive Evidence Of A Lack Of Substance And Originality.

Thirdly, Even If We Assume That The World Is Governed By Purpose, We Need Only Add That This Purpose - Or, If There Are Several, At Least One Of Them - Is Not Especially Intent On Preventing Suffering, Whether It Is Indifferent To Suffering Or Actually Rejoices In It.

It Is Widely Assumed, Contrary To Fact, That Theism Necessarily Involves The Two Assumptions Which Cannot Be Squared With The Existence Of So Much Suffering, And That Therefore, Per Impossibile, They Simply Have To Be Squared With The Existence Of All This Suffering, Somehow.