Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.
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If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
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Hebrews 1:6:
And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'
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Moreover, when He brings the firstborn Son again into the habitable world, He says, Let all the angels of God worship Him.
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And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
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