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they are made greater, and more clearly see or believe ill the infinite Perfect, by so much the more will the lesser require divertisement from its longing curiosity, fear, and envy of the necessarily despotic, though benevolent First. The rationale of this divertisement will be the theory of what are called evils in the world,—but which we shall call the alleviations of the only misfortune of all finite beings, namely, the eternal necessity of the eternal imperfection of every intelligent being but one, in order to the greatest happiness and harmony of all.

SECTION X.

SUNDRY INFERENCES THE HEAVEN OF PROGRESSION.

Before advancing, it will be to our pleasure and profit to draw sundry inferences from the foregoing, which may throw some little light both before and behind us,—inferences concerning the immortality of the soul.

We risk little in saying that most theology stops at the gates of heaven. The theory of the soul's eternity after death (supposing it immortal) is not, until recently, a subject of practiced thought. To "get to heaven" is to be happy, and there theology rests. Yet it must be obvious that the soul, any where, will be confined by certain eternal necessities. It is not

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