242 SSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



judge another? It is a challenge to philosophy 

 and to religion, to ethics and to law. And the 

 answer is as terrible as it is true. By right of 

 reason and of conscience I wield the sword of God. 

 In every judgment of true or false in speculation, 

 of right or wrong in practice, I judge God's judg- 

 ment. And so firmly do men believe this, that for 

 what they hold to be truth they are ready to die, 

 though all the powers of earth, and even religion 

 itself, be against them. So fearlessly do they 

 believe the absoluteness of their moral judgments, 

 that they will dare to say, with the great Utilitarian, 

 A God who is not moral, as my conscience judges 

 morality, is not God. I will not worship Him. 

 Through faith in God, I reject as God one who is 

 not good and just and true. 



It is God's revelation, then, that Theology 

 unfolds ; God's will that ethics declares ; God's 

 judgments that Law enforces. And hence it is 

 that, in the evolution of Law, Revelation has 

 played so prominent a part Never has the 

 Conscience been strengthened and informed by 

 new truth, but Law has faithfully reflected the new 

 light. Hegel, indeed, declares that the highest 

 truth of which Law is possessed, the idea of 

 Personality, it owes to the religion of Christ. 

 " Entire quarters of the globe," he says, " Africa 

 and the East, have never had, and have not yet, 

 the idea. The Greeks and Romans, Plato and 



