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But would it ?" Surely we know that one of the best of the good things in life is victory, and particularly moral victory.

But to demand victory without an antagonist is to demand something with no meaning.
If you take all the evil out of the world you will remove the possibility of the best thing in life.

That does not mean that evil is good.

What one means by calling a thing good is that the spirit rests permanently content with it for its own sake.