5/21 Yet if the Jews took a petty and huckstering view of conduct, what view do we take ourselves, who callously leave youth to go forth into the enchanted forest, full of spells and dire chimeras, with no guidance more complete than is afforded by these five precepts? Yes, but does that mean to obey? Yet the very intention and purport of the prohibition may be best fulfilled by killing. _Thou shall not commit adultery_. But some of the ugliest adulteries are committed in the bed of marriage and under the sanction of religion and law. |