Mankind has learned at length the meaning and sense of laws which once were imposed by religious authority, laws of sanitation and of cleanliness. They were once the affair of the temple and the priest. Now they are the concern of the hospital and, indeed, of the home. What were once religious secrets haves become the commonplaces of human wisdom. In the days of the Pentateuch so it was with civil and criminal laws. They were associated with the hidden glory of God, but they are now merged in the advancing honour of man. Man now searches such things out for himself, but there is as much
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