Then there is history. What a crazy thing is the history of man upon earth, if there is no God, if there is no divine purpose in human life? All the life of man, all his sufferings, all his triumphs. would mean nothing. Lifo would ba what Macbeth declares it to be, "a tale told by an idiot,- all sound and fury, signifying nothing." That would be dreadful indeed. If we men were just like ants toiling and trying to carry grains of corn too heavy for us, as ants try to do, then! indeed life would be an awful thing. But we know there is a purpose in it. A good man knows, that his efforts and sufferings are not in vain: and bad men have foreboding of ill-desert, and often enough "certain awful looking forward" to judgézient.
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