ABSTRACT
The true life is the self-denying life, which ministers to the higher welfare of him who lives it, and to the happiness of the race. The real purpose of existence is the moral welfare of the individual, which is ultimately and in reality identical with the welfare of the race. Human freedom is a cherished principle of the Jewish religion. Every picture of a possible world must include struggle, the condition precedent to progress and happiness. The desire to yield to evil impulse is inborn in human nature, for it is the essential condition of the moral life. A law can be given only to those who have the power to obey it. The fetters of obligation are unmeaning except to bind those who are free. If man had been created angelic, free from the solicitations of a lower nature, he would have been created in vain.
