There is some good in everything

OUTLINE :

1.      The old teacher have preached this proverb

2.      Good and evil are different degrees of the same thing

3.      Is it possible to be neither good or bad ?

4.      The mosquito

   5.      The liver fluke

Men have always been interested in the world, their environment, whatever a like to call it. We see in the world of objects, sights and sound, many things that are pleasant and agreeable, and  many things that we think to be evil. Ancient philosophers have preached that everything has some purpose of good, although we may not be able to see it clearly.

A few years ago, the farmers in an English country thought that crows were very destructive birds. They saw the crows among the crops of young corn and in the yellow fields of harvest time. It was decided that the crows were stealing or destroying the grain, and a campaign was started to destroy them. Thousands were shot.

Next year, the farmers got a very poor harvest of grain an fruit, because there was a great  increase in the number of wire worms and various destructive insects. These were as a ruled killed  by the crows, and formed a main part of the crow’s food. So the crows were the farmers friends, and not his enemies.

In any man or woman wholly bad ? as a rule, Shakespeare has shown that even his civil character have a spark of virtue in them. Attila, the hun, slew thousands, but was very fond of a small bird which he kept in a cage. A bad man is one who has more badness and goodness, and a good man, unless he be a saint, has some human frailty. The ancients preached the doctrine of a universal god, a spirit pervading all things. Words woth found that god is in all objects of nature, in all the things of material world. This is what we call pantheism, the theory that god is universal and in everything. But if god is in anything, how can that thing be called bad ? one modern writer has argued that there is also a universal spirit of evil, and that in some men and some places, this spirit rather than god, is in possession, if that is so we should see that our hearts are thrown open to god, for god is good.

A leading essay writer has stated boldly that some things are completely evil, and can have no possible element of good. He quotes the mosquito as an example. Coming from infection, the mosquito injects its poison into the human blood. The parasites multiply, the blood become infected will probably die. What is there to put on the credit side against this ? what good can the mosquito do ? then there is small organism called the liver fluke. Starting life in a stagnant pond, it makes its way out to the land. It is swallowed by the sheep which are grazing there. Once inside the body of the sheep the worm bores its way into the liver and lives on it. The sheep dies. Millions of the sheep are lost by this destructive pest. It is not true that mosquito and the liver fluke are wholly bad, and that is likely to be god than devil that is in them .

Vocabularies:

Evil                  : morally bad or harmful

Liver Fluke      : Person who lives in a specified way

Wireworms      : Destructive Larva

Slew                 : Such a turn

Human Frailty  : Weakness Human

Pervading         : Spread Throughout

Impoverished   : Make Poor

Devil                :Deviating from what is normal

Saint                : Holy

Infection          : Being Infected