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who think that there is only one way to truth, and that all the rest are wrong ;-or the way of the wise, who admit that, according to our mental constitution or the different plane of existence in which we are, duty and morality may vary. Thus the important thing is to know that there are gradations of duty and of morality—that what is the duty of one state of life, in one set of circumstances will not and cannot be that of another.
The following example will serve to illustrate this position :-All great teachers have taught “Resist not evil”-have taught that the nonresisting of evil is the highest moral ideal. We all know that, if every one of us living in this country, attempted to put that maxim fully into practice, the whole social fabric would fall to pieces, society would be destroyed, the violent and the wicked would take possession of our properties and our lives, and would do whatever they liked with us. Even if only one day of such non-resistance were practised it would lead to the utter dissolution of society. Yet, intuitively,. in
