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Seth figures as the Messiah in later Jewish tradition (Encyclo. Brit., 11th Ed., Art. Seth); and Enos (Man) is the son of Seth who calls himself (by the name of) the Lord.*
Let us pause for a moment to explain the significance of the expression 'the knowledge of good and evil' as used in the Bible. Every one knows that good and evilt are only comparative terms, neither of which signifies anything in particular in itself, but, when taken in relation to some specific thing, they convey the idea of utility, benefit or advantage, in the one case, and of uselessness, harm, or disadvantage, in the other. That which determines the good or evil of any particular thing, at any particular time, is, in the first instance, our own body, or personality, so that when a thing acts, or is likely to act, on our personality, or body, in a beneficial, or advantageous, manner, we call it good, and, in the converse case, evil. Hence, knowledge of good and evil' means the knowledge of the relations in which our body, or personality, stands to the remaining bodies in the world ; in other words, the knowledge of the phenomenal. And, since the knowledge of the phenomenal is possible only through sense-organs, the knowledge of good and evil, in its ultimate analysis, only amounts to sensual experiences of pleasure and pain. As said in the Mundaka Upanishad, 'two sciences must be known, the highest * See the marginal note to Genesis, IV. 26.
CJ. " It is things out of place that are bad; not things in themselves. All evil is relative, and its relation is with higher forms of goodness." Reason and Belief,' by Sir Oliver Lodge, p. 140.
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