4 EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 



on the bedrock of the modern social problem as 

 well as of countless other questions for which 

 there will be no solution until religion is restored 

 to the hearts of men. 



If there is no God, no immortality, then every- 

 thing is permitted, everything is allowable. That 

 is the pith and kernel of the entire atheist phi- 

 losophy when reduced to practice. Only see to it 

 that no one shall detect you, or no one can bring 

 you to harm. Such was the law of paganism, and 

 such will again be the law wherever religion is 

 ignored. 



The traditions of our day are still, we must 

 remember, the traditions of Christianity. Their 

 influence cannot at once be eradicated. It is felt 

 even by those who ignore them entirely. But 

 given a godless education for generations to come, 

 and these traditions also would disappear from 

 the minds of the masses within the nation which 

 had thus blindly offended against rerson and 

 sinned against God. Unaided by religion, the 

 natural law will in practice be too weak to with- 

 stand the violent assaults of passion and the 

 promptings of an unholy selfishness. Logically 

 indeed, we cannot even admit the existence of a 

 natural moral law, that man could be bound to 

 obey, if there were no God. The obligation of 

 obedience cannot come from a blind nature, but 

 only from a living Creator. We must return, in 



