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    The Economic Functions of Vice
    The Economic Functions of Vice
    The Economic Functions of Vice
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    The Economic Functions of Vice

    By John McElroy

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    Release dateFeb 1, 2008
    The Economic Functions of Vice
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    John McElroy

    John McElroy lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Alaine. He is Senior Pastor at Southern Cross Centre and Director of the Southern Cross Association of Churches, an apostolic network comprised of over 200 ministries spanning the Southern Hemisphere. He is past National Convenor of the Australian Coalition of Apostolic Leaders and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

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      Title: The Economic Functions of Vice

      Author: John McElroy

      Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31768]

      Last Updated: October 31, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF VICE ***

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      THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF VICE

      By John McElroy

      WASHINGTON, D. C.

      Published by The National Tnbune

      Copyright, 1906

           "Are God and Nature then at strife,

           That Nature lends such evil dreams?

           So careful of the type she seems,

           So careless of the single life."

                       ———

           "And the individual withers,

           and the world is more and more."

           —Tennyson.

      THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF VICE

      FOR some inscrutable reason which she has as yet given no hint of revealing, Nature is wondrously wasteful in the matter of generation. She creates a thousand where she intends to make use of one.

      Imbued with the maternal instinct, the female cod casts millions of eggs upon the waters, expecting them to return after many days as troops of interesting offspring. Instead, half die embryotic gadi are almost immediately devoured by spawn-eaters, hundreds of thousands perish in incubation, hundreds of thousands more succumb to the perils attending ichthyic infancy, leaving but a few score to attain to adult usefulness and pass an honored old age with the fragrance of a well-spent life in the country grocery.

      The oak showers down 10,000 acorns, each capable of producing a tree. Three-fourths of them are straightway diverted from their arboreal intent through conversion into food by the provident squirrel and improvident hog. Great numbers rot uselessly upon the ground, and the few hundred that finally succeed in germinating grow up into dense thickets, where at last die strongest smothers out all the rest like an oaken Othello in a harem of quercine Desdemonas.

      THIS is the law of all life, animal as well as vegetable. From the humble hyssop on the wall to the towering cedar of Lebanon, from the meek and lowly amoeba—which has no more

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