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Blake Expressed Some Doubt As To Whether God Had Made The Tiger. But The Tiger Is In Many Ways An Admirable Animal. We Have Now To Ask Whether God Made The Tapeworm. And It Is Questionable Whether An Affirmative Answer Fits In Either With What We Know About The Process Of Evolution Or What Many Of Us Believe About The Moral Perfection Of God.

The Conclusion Forced Upon Me In The Course Of A Life Devoted To Natural Science Is That The Universe As It Is Assumed To Be In Physical Science Is Only An Idealized World, While The Real Universe Is The Spiritual Universe In Which Spiritual Values Count For Everything.

The Creator Would Appear As Endowed With A Passion For Stars, On The One Hand, And For Beetles On The Other, For The Simple Reason That There Are Nearly 300,000 Species Of Beetle Known, And Perhaps More, As Compared With Somewhat Less Than 9,000 Species Of Birds And A Little Over 10,000 Species Of Mammals.

There Are 400,000 Species Of Beetles On This Planet, But Only 8,000 Species Of Mammals.

Until Politics Are A Branch Of Science, We Shall Do Well To Regard Political And Social Reforms As Experiments Rather Than Short-cuts To The Millennium.