He understands thoroughly that there is nothing useless or superfluous in this world, nothing which does not proceed from something, and which does not lead to something.

The just, the unjust, good, evil, good works, evil deeds, fall into the abyss, but are not lost there, passing on into the infinite, for the benefit or the burden of those who have accomplished them.

After death they are collected, and the sum-total cast up.

To disappear, to vanish, to be annihilated, to cease to be, is no more possible for the moral atom than for the material atom.

Hence, in man, that great twofold sense of his liberty and of his responsibility.