  Notes to Reid's lectures distinguish between three forms of evil: “1. the evils of imperfection, 2. Evil which they call natural Evil, 3. Moral evil” (Natural Theology 101). The first refers to the fact that creatures could have been given greater degrees of perfection. The second form is “suffering &amp; pain which we see endured by beings in the Universe.” The third refers to the “violation of the laws of Virtue by moral &amp; reasonable agents” (Natural Theology 101).