Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Concepts antedate facts.
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.