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Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg: 251-300

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Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1764], tr. by William Frederic Wunsch [1851] _The worshiper of self and of nature confirms himself against divine providence when he reflects that wars are permitted and the slaughter in them of so many men and the plundering of their wealth._ It is not by divine providence that wars occur, for they entail murder, plunder, violence, cruelty, and other terrible evils which are diametrically opposed to Christian charity. Yet they cannot but be permitted…