ABSTRACT
Conscience is a very complex concept, and, of course, it is difficult to demand conscientiousness from each person. But one can demand honor because a dishonest act in public is clearly noticed by public opinion. True honor is always in accordance with conscience. False honor is a mirage in a desert, the moral desert of the human soul. Literature is the conscience of a society, its soul. The honor and merit of a writer consists in defending truth and the right to that truth under the most unfavorable circumstances. The absence of conscientiousness in people who work in the economy causes material damage. The absence of conscientiousness in people who are responsible for culture causes damage which is not manifested materially. The new stands in opposition to the old although, perhaps, not everything that is new is better than the old. As light opposes darkness, so reason and wisdom oppose ignorance and folly.
