The Mystery of Evil by David Solway

After much reading and some thinking, I still cannot adequately explain evil. I can understand and applaud the moral virtue of a Laskaridis, the quality of an advanced sensibility that recognizes the beauty, transience, and preciousness of life. But I cannot come to terms with the perverse inclinations of a man like Soros, a form of "motiveless malignity" - the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's phrase for Shakespeare's Iago - actuated perhaps by envy or other psychological factors but transcending mere psychology in its fury, its rage against the fulness of being or, simply, its campaign against human happiness.

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