First, it must be fixed; second, it must be composite.

It must not (if it is to satisfy our souls) be the mere victory of some one thing swallowing up everything else, love or pride or peace or adventure; it must be a definite picture composed of these elements in their best proportion and relation.

I am not concerned at this moment to deny that some such good culmination may be, by the constitution of things, reserved for the human race.

I only point out that if this composite happiness is fixed for us it must be fixed by some mind; for only a mind can place the exact proportions of a composite happiness.

If the beatification of the world is a mere work of nature, then it must be as simple as the freezing of the world, or the burning up of the world.