It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.