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doctors of this sect preserve their souls and their 

 practices by calling to their aid skilled heretical 

 colleagues. A still more amazing result is that 

 the women of the sect, with a tender regard for 

 the souls of their co-religionists and their own 

 lives, prefer to employ heretical practitioners. 



The morals of every country are inseparably 

 associated with its religion. British sexual morality, 

 for instance, is founded on Christianity. Non- 

 Christians may of course adhere to the Christian 

 moral code — -not because it is Christian, but because 

 they think it is right — but to the mass of the people 

 the code owes its validity to its associated religion. 

 The community recognises two classes of offences — 

 those which are unlawful and those which are im- 

 moral. Unlawful offences are generally immoral 

 {e.g. robbery) ; but all immoral offences are not 

 unlawful. Thus, in England, illegitimate sexual 

 intercourse is held to be immoral, but often it is 

 not unlawful. On analysis it will be found that 

 purely moral offences infringe the religious code — 

 the generally beneficial tapu ; whereas unlawful 

 offences infringe the secular rights of individuals. 

 Probably no human being holds in all its details 

 the same moral code {i.e. the same ideas of right 

 and wrong) as any other person. The codes of the 

 various Christian denominations differ considerably 

 {i.e. as regards the celibacy of the clergy or as regards 



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