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The Basis of Morality by Annie Wood Besant
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CONTENTS


I. REVELATION
II. INTUITION
III. UTILITY
IV. EVOLUTION
V. MYSTICISM

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I

REVELATION


Must religion and morals go together? Can one be taught without the
other? It is a practical question for educationists, and France tried
to answer it in the dreariest little cut and dry kind of catechism ever
given to boys to make them long to be wicked. But apart from education,
the question of the bedrock on which morals rest, the foundation on
which a moral edifice can be built that will stand secure against the
storms of life--that is a question of perennial interest, and it must
be answered by each of us, if we would have a test of Right and Wrong,
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