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BSURDITIES. 1. "A general mass of sensation consisting of various elements borrowed from the past and the future." 2. "Since sensation is made up of past, present, and future, the infant feeling for the moment only, the man recollecting what is past and anticipating the future, and as the present sensation must therefore in time bear a less proportion to the general mass of sensation than it did, so at last all temporary affections, whether of pain or pleasure become wholly inconsiderable." 3. "The great book of nature and the book of revelation both lie open before us." 4. "A conclusion above our comprehension." 5. "A whole eternity already past." 6. "Since a finite Being cannot be infinitely happy, because he must then be infinite in knowledge and power; and as all limitation of happiness must consist in degree of happiness or mixture of misery, the Deity can alone determine which mode of limitation is best." 7. "We have reason to be thankful for our pains and distress." 8. "If the divine Being had made man at first as happy as he can be after all the feelings and ideas of a painful and laborious life, it must have been in violation of all general laws and by a constant and momentary interference of the Deity." 9. "It is better the divine agency should not be very conspicuous." 10. "If good prevails on the whole, creation being infinite, happiness must be infinite, and God comprehending the whole, will only perceive the balance of good, and that will be happiness unmixed with misery." 11. "If a man is happy in the whole he is infinitely happy in the whole of his existence." 12. "Although all things fall alike to all men and no distinction is made between the righteous and the wicked, and even though the wicked derive an advantage from their vices, yet this is consistent with a state of moral government by a Being of infinite wisdom and power." 13. "As ploughing is the means of having a harvest, though God has predetermined whether there should be a harvest or not, so prayer is the means of obtaining good from God, although that good is predetermined upon; it is therefore no more absurd to pray than to plough." 14. "Notwithstanding happiness is the necessary consequence of health, yet man's happiness is more from intellectual than
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