The Basis of Morality by Annie Besant
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The Basis of Morality
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Title: The Basis of Morality
Author: Annie Besant
Release Date: April 4, 2005 [EBook #15545]
Language: English
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THE BASIS OF MORALITY
BY
ANNIE BESANT
AUTHOR OF
_Mysticism, The Immediate Future, Initiation: The Perfecting of Man, Superhuman Men, etc. etc._
THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA 1915
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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, would know why Right is