ABSTRACT
The official view of conscience is that it is an organ implanted in man by God to guide his conduct and show him what is right. The two entities, conscience and the moral standard, are variously related in different people. Millions of human beings have sensible ideas about what they ought to do, but because their consciences are weak or work intermittently, or are otherwise faulty, they fail to live up to them. The consciences of normal men will tend to agree, and ought to agree whether they do or not. In one sense the consciences of normal men are in complete agreement. They are the instruments by which moral behaviour is controlled, and where human beings have been taught to think in terms of right and wrong, they control human behaviour by bidding us do right and avoid wrong. Disagreements between individual consciences are unimportant compared with the fact that those who obey conscience are trying to do right.
