Excerpt from Religio Clerici and Other PoemsThen comes the awful question: Are not sin, moral disorder, wickedness (specific and per se), involved in the very constitution of nature - a substantial part, a necessary, even if only transient, element thereof? Is not evil inherent in the world, born with its birth, crescive with its growth, imperishable amid its changes? Or is man alone alien in heart and sinful? Is he the sole peccant part of an otherwise healthy whole? Do morality, and therefore sin, first emerge in him? If he is not what the writer calls him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.