ABSTRACT
Throughout the history of man's development as a civilised being there has been an increasingly close connection between the moral code accepted in any community and its religious beliefs. Morality has thus come to be commonly regarded as derived from religion and dependent upon it for validity and direction. The essence of morality is expressed in the word 'ought'. In its social aspect, morality is what is recognised as due from the individual to the community as a whole and to its various members. Traditional rules of conduct thus grew into established systems of social morality. This is morality in its objective aspect; its subjective and personal aspect is a sense of ‘ought’ fostered by observance of these rules, but in its fuller development passing beyond them. All the great religions have given to help of the less fortunate a foremost place in the conduct they enjoin.
