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is but one Source of the beautiful, the good, and the true; for all the beauty, goodness and truth there are in the world, are only finite expressions—faint images, as it were—of the One Infinite Goodness. "There is but One Good, that is God."

And we are taught that man was originally made in the image and likeness of this One Good. Therefore all the finite expressions of this Good, are always pleasing to men in the degree that their moral integrity has been preserved, or the lovely image of their Maker been retained. They interest and attract every mind, from which the native hues of innocence have not faded or been blotted out.

And yet the interest which most men feel in the beautiful, the good, and the true, is often enhanced by contrast with their opposites. Beauty never appears so attractive, as when exhibited along with deformity.