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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil, Cold, Beats
Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.