ABSTRACT
The Israelites have broken out into revolt against their leaders, charging the faithful hearts who were ready to lay down their lives for them with having slain the men who had died in and through their own sin. Absolute solutions of the problems that torment are impossible; but there are alleviations of them. One that seems the most satisfying of all is to be found in the mind and the soul themselves. The very power, inborn in humanity, to conceive of the Divine, is in itself a witness to the reality of the Divine. By the common consent of humanity righteousness is man’s normal condition; wrongdoing something abnormal, unnatural, monstrous. Men may differ in their interpretation of righteousness, in their theories of its origin; but they all, from the greatest to the least of them, from the saint to the savage, acclaim it as the ideal good.
