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EVIL

Volume 8 · 54 words · 1823 Edition

in Philosophy, &c. is either moral or natural. Moral evil is the disagreement between the actions of a moral agent, and the rule of those actions, whatever it is. Natural evil is, whatever destroys or disturbs the perfection of natural beings; such as blindness, diseases, death, &c.

King's Evil, or Scrophula. See Medicine Index.