material aspects, bonds, and relationships would go for nothing. This means that what makes the order order is eternal happiness.

2. Divine wisdom, the exemplification of pre-eternal providence, proclaims eternal happiness since it pursues uses and purposes in all beings. For if there were no eternal happiness, all the self-evident instances of wisdom and benefits in the universe would compete with each other and cease to be thus.

3. The absence of futility in creation, which is testified to by reason, wisdom, and induction, points to eternal happiness within the resurrection of the dead; indeed, is evidence of it. For absolute non-existence would make everything futile and pointless.

4. The absence of waste in the nature of things, for instance, in the microcosm that is man, which is testified to by the science of anatomy, proves the absence of waste in man's mental faculties, and hopes, ideas, and desires. And this announces that he is destined for eternal happiness.

5. If it were not so, those faculties and desires would all wither up and go for nothing. Is it at all possible? Could the shell of a pearl worth the world be cherished and prized, protecting it from a speck of dust even, and then that priceless pearl be smashed and destroyed? No, indeed! It is cherished for its own sake.

6. Indeed, as explained above, the perfect [cosmic] order, the existence of which is established by induction and all the sciences, necessitates everlasting happiness within bodily resurrection, which saves the order from defect and disturbance, and will manifest perfectedness and eternal life.

7. The days, years, human lifespan, and rotations of the world precede each other like the workings of a clock which count the seconds, minutes, hours, and days. They indicate that as the morning follows the night, and spring the winter, so the resurrection will follow on after death and appear from that workshop. Yes, each individual human being resembles a species, for the light of thought has given such breadth to his hopes that he would not be satisfied even if he swallowed all time. The nature, worth, view, attainments, pleasures and pains of the members of other species are particular, individual, limited, restricted, and instantaneous; but those of