ABSTRACT
Every human being, low in the scale of intelligence or civilisation, has a sense of responsibility, if not to himself, at least to others. Human obligation must have one of three objects—God, Oneself, One's fellow-creatures. The world's great work of philanthropy has hitherto been mainly carried on by God-fearing men and women. Morality gams in depth from the Religious idea. Duty towards Self—what we may call subjective morality—is enriched to an incalculable degree by the sanctions of Religion. The man who realises that his very nature links him to God, is necessarily characterised by special virtues. The morality that is based upon Religion must necessarily have one department exclusively its own. For the religionist, moreover, goodness is the Divine choice, an image of the Divine will and character. Morality, divorced from Religion, always threatens to issue in moral confusion, in that putting of "darkness for light and light for darkness " which the Prophet denounces.
