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in the inexorableness of universal laws in the working of which God himself never interferes, imperilling thereby the integrity of His own creation, we find it impossible to justify his ways on occasions like the one which has sorely stricken us in an overwhelming manner and scale. If we associate the ethical principles with cosmic phenomena we shall have to admit that human nature is morally superior to Providence that preaches its lessons in good behaviour in orgies of the worst behaviour possible. For we can never imagine any civilised ruler of men making indiscriminate examples of casual victims including children and members of the untouchable community in order to impress others dwelling at a safe distance who possibly deserve severer condemnation. Though we cannot point out any period of human history that is free from iniquities of the darkest kind, we still find citadels of malevolence yet remain unsha ken, that factories that cruelly thrive upon the abject poverty and ignorance of famished cultivators, or prison houses in all parts of the world where the penal system is pursued, which most often is a special form of licensed criminality, still stand firm. It only shows the law of gravitation does not in the least respond to the stupendous load.of callousness that accumulatestill ●s br