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irth of a deformed child results, in part, from acts of carelessness
in the parental line.
(c) The status of rational, moral being as the ultimate end of the
divine purpose, implies the instrumental significance of all
lower levels of reality---even including the higher orders of sentient
being and the sentient nature of man himself.
(i) Thus the maintenance of the general balance of the entire organic
realm, through the reciprocal instrumentality of the various
forms of organic life in sustaining one another, is not and
insoluble problem at all, since the whole organic realm has a
predominantly (and I think exclusively) instrumental significance.
(a) Various forms of life do prey upon one another: cats to eat
mice; micro-organisms do cause decay and disease in sentient
beings. [[360]]
(b) But all this would be inexplicable only on the supposition
that mere organic life as such had intrinsic and ultimate significance
as an end: that this is the case has been disproved in a
previous context.
(ii) Furthermore, the reciprocation among various forms of organic
life does maintain the general balance of the whole organic
realm as a proximate environment for moral realization:
this plan provides for the removal of organisms "in the way
which least pollutes nature with corruption." (Footnote 99:
James Orr, The Christian View of God and the World, p. 189.)
(iii) Finally, we shall presently see that human disease and suffering
have a still deeper purposive significance in the development
of moral character.