value they attached to murder as a remedial agent, have been known by the
name of the "Assassins."

_Mrs Allmash_. Oh, good gracious!

_Lady Fritterly_. My dear Louisa, what is the matter? You look quite
frightened.

_Ali Seyyid_. Mrs Allmash is a little alarmed because I proposed a new
morality for the future, as well as a new religion.

_Mr Coldwaite_. Excuse me; but in discussions of this sort, I think it
is most important that we should clearly understand the meanings of the
terms we employ. Now I deny that any difference subsists between
religion and morality. That any such distinction should exist in men's
minds is due to the fact that dogma is inseparably connected with
religion. If you eliminate dogma, what does religion consist of but
morality? Substitute the love of Humanity for the love of the
Unknowable--which is the subject of worship of Mr Germsell; or of the
Deity, who is the object of worship of the majority of mankind--and you
obtain a stimulus to morality which will suffice for all human need. It
is in this great emotion, as it seems to me, that you will find at once
the religion and the morality of the future.

_Germsell_. From what source do you get the force which enables you to
love humanity with a devotion so intense that it shall elevate your
present moral standard?

_Coldwaite_. From humanity itself. I am not going to be entrapped into
getting it from any unknowable source; the love of humanity, whether it