Here we merely wish to point out two facts: that the Creator Himself, without regard to the future Incarnation, described His work as “very good,”25 and that the Incarnation would not be preeminently a free grace if it corresponded to a strict claim of nature. The champions of moderate or relative Optimism26 maintain that the present order, capped by the Incarnation, represents the “best possible world,” not because the Incarnation was a metaphysical necessity, but because it was morally necessary