'...as machines which require the most workmanship may be stopped or disordered by the defect of a single nail or wheel: so the error or offence of one man puts the rational system or society of mankind out of order. Any person, by almost one single free act, may destroy a house or ship, nay a city or a fleet, by fire or wreck. Any king or governor can, by an easy and free act, overwhelm whole nations with war, rapine, slaughter and villany.

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'God does not permit any bad elections, but such as may be reconciled with the good of the whole system, and has digested and order'd everything in such a manner, that these very faults and vices shall tend to the good of the whole.' - William King, An Essay on the Origin of Evil