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. But if it be further asked, why God so constituted man that evil was possible to him under any circumstances whatever—we must refer the inquirer to a previous chapter, where the question is discussed at large. Suffice it here, to say in general terms, that man, otherwise constituted, would not have been, man, but rather like the inferior animals,—which, indeed, cannot violate the order of their natures, but which, nevertheless, in that inability to change, are incapable of rising as well as of falling, and are utterly prevented from making, as man can, perpetual advances towards perfection.