Note (return) — Chapter VII

"As far as man's reason has applied itself to the discovery of truth or duty it has generally gone astray." 372 "Questions of morals do not, for the most part, lie level to the minds of the populace." 373 "Their conclusions have no authority, and place them under no obligation." 374 And, indeed, man without a revelation "is without moral control, without principles of justice, except such as may be slowly elaborated from those relations which concern the grosser interests of life, without conscience, without hope or fear in another life." 375