APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
All that is best in the ethics of the modern World, in so far as it has not grown out of Greek thought or .Barbarian manhood, is the direct development of the ethics of old Israel. There is no code of legislation, ancient or model'll at once so just and so merciful, so tender fo the weak and poor, as the Jewish law; and, if tlie Gospels are to he trusted, Jesus of Nazareth himself declared that he taught nothing hut that which lay implicitly, or explicitly, in the religious and ethical system of his people. •if ■X 1 The first-recorded judicial murder of a scientific thinker was compassed and effected, hot by a despot, nor by priests, hut was brought about by eloquent demagogues, to whom, of all men, thorough. seaehings of the intellect are most'dangerous and therefore most hatefui.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1931, Page 1
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144APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1931, Page 1
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