The Moral Vision
The Order of Nature
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THE ORDER OF NATURE
Try closing your room, going away, and returning
after a few weeks. What do you find on your
return?
A thick layer of dust all over the room. This is so
unpleasant that you don’t feel like sitting in the
room until it has been dusted. Equally upleasant is
the dust blown in your face by a high wind, you
find yourself longing for the wind to drop, so that
there should be no more irritating dust.
But what is this dust that we find so annoying? It is
in fact a loose surface layer of fertile soil, the very
substance which enables the growth of all forms of
vegetables, fruits and cereals. If this soil did not lie
on the face of the earth, it would be impossible for
us to live on the earth at all.
It is this same dust that makes the earth’s
atmosphere dense enough for water to vaporize,
forming clouds which produce torrents of water to
revive and replenish the earth. Without rain, there
would be no life on earth, and rain is only possible
because of the dust in the earth’s atmosphere.
