For when you tell me that my assertion is a mere quibble--that it matters not whether we call a man unselfish or wisely selfish--you fail to see that, when we understand this truth, there is no longer any sin.

'Sin' is then seen to be but a mistaken notion of what brings happiness.

Last night's burglar and your bishop differ not morally but intellectually--one knowing surer ways of achieving his own happiness, being more sensitive to that oneness of the race which thrills us all in varying degrees.

When you know this--that the difference is not moral but intellectual, self-righteousness disappears and with it a belief in moral difference--the last obstacle to the realisation of our oneness.

It is in the church that this fiction of moral difference has taken its final stand.
"And not only shall we have no full realisation of the brotherhood of man until this inevitable, equal selfishness is understood, but we shall have no rational conception of virtue.