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"Oh, eternity with outstretched wings, that broodest over the secret truths in whose roots lie the mysteries of man -- his whence, his whither -- have I searched thee, and struck a right key on thy dreadful organ! "
Suffering is a mightier agency in the hands of nature, as a Demiurgus creating the intellect, than most people are aware of.