Secondly, The worth of the soul. We can answer the question proposed in the text only as we estimate first, the real value of the world, and secondly the real value of the immortal soul. The thought is overwhelming. To get a glimpse of the truth on this subject, I observe that to lose the soul is, 1. To lose, or fail of, eternal happiness.
Eternal happiness is an ever-growing quantity.
Each soul must arrive, in the progress of its existence, at a point where he can truly say, taking the whole of his past existence, that he has enjoyed more happiness than all the creatures of God, comprising the whole universe of created beings, had enjoyed previous to his existence. It is true that each soul will be able to say, in the progress of his existence, that he has enjoyed millions of times more happiness than all creatures had enjoyed before he began to be. The aggregate of their enjoyment together did not amount to so much as the aggregate of his single enjoyment since he began to be. Not only will they be able to say that they have enjoyed millions of times more, but inconceivably more than all creatures had enjoyed before they began to be. That is, each soul will, in the progress of his existence, be able to say, that the amount of his happiness will be inconceivably greater than that enjoyed by all creatures before he began to be.