ABSTRACT
The thought of a creation, and the idea that Nature's laws were enacted with regard to moral values, have become, in this view of the world, at least a superfluous hypothesis. The idea of moral insufficiency is thus of religious significance. For the cultivated man moral courage and humility fuse together into the mood of Resignation, in which his ethical view of the world meets his religious view. Self-respect, originating immediately in the con-consciousness of duty, and without the addition of any other motive, is the sufficient driving force of the moral man. Kant's declaration of the emancipation of the moral reason has challenged all those who would keep humanity in tutelage. Mysticism values morality at best as exercise in order to develop in itself that higher power. Moral accountability judges the conduct of man by the moral law in so far as he recognises it by his own insight.
