Excerpt from The Rise and the Fall; Or the Origin of Moral Evil, Vol. 1 of 3: In Three Parts
It is not intended in the following pages to directly answer the age-old and still vexed problem, "Why must and does evil exist under the government of a benevolent God?" With whatever of mystery that inquiry may be obscured, the two great facts remain unquestioned, - God is benevolent, and yet evil exists. Perplexing, then, as our reason may imagine the explanation to be, the two cannot be incompatible; yet how is it that after so many centuries of discussion there is as yet no universally accepted solution? Can it be that the premises, upon which the thousand theories proceed, need reexamination? No harm can be done, at least, by such review, if it is conducted in a proper spirit; and it is such a discussion that we have here attempted.
The first inquiry that meets us is one of historical fact. In what way, and under what circumstances, was moral evil originated in, or introduced into, the world?
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