CHAPTER VI. 



The Developing of Morals. 



T F we shall turn back the curtain of time and look down 

 through the centuries of civilization to the very horizon 

 of history, we find that man's progress has been many fold 

 in its development. From the very beginning there have 

 stood face to face within the lives of all mankind and within 

 the councils of every state and nation two opposing forces 

 each struggling for mastery in the kingdom of life. One of 

 these forces, we call right, the other wrong. 



The early history of our civilization is largely a history 

 of countless, cruel and bloody wars brought about by some 

 man or group of men seeking to live upon the fruits of other 

 men's toil. Its early pages are crimson with human blood. 

 The laws of the jungle are elevated to a degree of humane- 

 ness when compared with the tortures inflicted by man upon 

 his helpless brother. His superior intellect devised methods 

 of torture that no animal brain could conceive or inflict upon 

 its helpless victims. His spirit of revenge had no counter- 

 part in all animal creation and death alone would not satisfy 

 the demons of his nature. 



From the earliest date to which our knowledge of his- 

 tory reaches, the divine right of kings was asserted and 

 marshalled against the common rights of humanity. The 

 divine right of kings asserted: "You work and earn bread 

 and I will eat it; I will compel you to do it with the sword; 



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