We teach children that two and two are four, but not that it
is wrong to tell lies as a bookkeeper. We teach them that fire
burns, in science, but in morals we do not tell them that the
boy who tries to satisfy his hunger for pleasure with sin, is
one who eats red-hot coals when he is hungry. We tell the girl
that hot water scalds, but we do not tell her that there are
passions and pleasures through selfishness that blight the soul,
and do not satisfy, just as scalding water and boiling oil, and
carbolic acid will not satisfy thirst.--N. D. HILLIS.
(1767)
=Law More Than the Individual=--See IMPARTIALITY.