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... The problem of good and evil cannot be completely resolved in human history."—Reinhold Niebuhr, BEYOND TRAGEDY

It might, however be negotiable. We might become a species more interested in cooperation [good] than conflict [evil] as a necessary survival strategy. We might cease insisting that evil is necessary.

"[Utopian theory] imagines that perfect innocency, a new childhood, lies at the end of the social process. It thinks itself capable of creating a society in which all tensions are resolved and the final root of human anarchy is eliminated. If the were really possible its new society would not be the beginning of history as it fondly imagines, but its end. ...

Not the ment her outraged defense of Lord Peter's atheism.

I love the rant about the forced ending of Great Expectations. I too prefer Dickens's intended tragedy.