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7/13/2025, 6:18:34 PM
>"The world is as it is made," he went on, regarding me fixedly. "It is moved by the lowest and pettiest motives, it works for the most trivial, ridiculous, and perishable aims. It is not a paradise. It is not a happy family of united and affectionate brethren. It is an over-populated colony of jabbering and quarrelsome monkeys, who fancy they are men. Philosophers in old days tried to teach it that the monkeytype should be exterminated for the growth and encouragement of a nobler race, but they preached in vain, there never were enough real men alive to overcome the swarming majority of the beasts. God Himself, they say, came down from Heaven to try and set wrong things right, and to restore if possible His own defaced image to the general aspect of humanity, and even He failed."
>"There is very little of God in this world,I said bitterly. "There is much more Devil!"
>He smiled, a musing, dreamy smile that transfigured his countenance and made him look like a fine Apollo absorbed in the thought of some new and glorious song.
>"No doubt!" he said, after a little pause. "Mankind certainly prefer the devil to any other deity, therefore if they elect him as their representative, it is scarcely to be wondered at that he governs, where he is asked to govern."
>"There is very little of God in this world,I said bitterly. "There is much more Devil!"
>He smiled, a musing, dreamy smile that transfigured his countenance and made him look like a fine Apollo absorbed in the thought of some new and glorious song.
>"No doubt!" he said, after a little pause. "Mankind certainly prefer the devil to any other deity, therefore if they elect him as their representative, it is scarcely to be wondered at that he governs, where he is asked to govern."
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