Excerpt from Classic Tales, Serious and Lively, Vol. 2: With Critical Essays on the Merits and Reputation of the Authors Ease the murmurers against Providence, 71. Therefore they determined, that every thing Was for. The best, and as good as it possibly could be. {i'hus war, and famine, and vice, became bles sings instead of curses, and the omnipotence as 'well as go'odness of the Deity was lirmted to fur nish a wider space for human conjecture. But We should be cautious at all times how we use the words can and cannot, when speaking of Provi deuce: our owni ignorance, which impels us to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.