GOOD & EVIL
0 THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE. The problem of choice seems to be intimately bound up with the existence of life, writes Miss Dorothy L. Sayers in the "World Review." Inanimate matter cannot, develop otherwise than ■ as it does: but. the moment life appears there arrives lite possibility of some I kind of alternative. And here is the strange thing: life is infinitely more frail than lifeless matter, but has infinitely mere power of resistance. It can reverse the order of progress from order to disorder: instead of perpetually crumbling away, it can build up. Apparently it desires to do this, since, when life becomes self-conscious, it ; disiiiiguisb.es construction from des- ■ traction by calling the one "good” and ) the other “evil." The inanimate does I not know evil, because then.' is nothing which it particularly distinguishes | as good. So we come to the interest-I ing conclusion that it is the good that actually creates evil. — ———
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 6
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