ABSTRACT
The question of moral training can be discussed apart from that of religion, and this without in any way prejudging the importance of the latter. The principles of lay morals and religion are similar: the great difference between them is the sanctions involved. Lay morals say frankly, “How can I so live as to cause the greatest pleasantness to those about me? “Religion brings in the additional concept of man's relation to God. The idea of God is one of great importance and wonder. It is one which the united thought of mankind for centuries has failed to make clear, simply because it involves elements which by definition transcend man's imagination. The mystic passes beyond ordinary experience and beyond language, and thus his vision is essentially incommunicable. The average man believes in his God, but is lamentably unable to make His attributes reasonable to the enquiring child. The Omnipresence of God, for example, can lead to absurd questions and answers, not because the concept is in any way absurd, but because it cannot be translated into terms that the child can understand.
