If we doubt this, we have but to examine the facts.

Are the most religious peoples the most moral?
It needs no prolonged investigation to convince us that they are not.

If proof of the want of a bond were required, the matter of truth-telling might be adduced in point.

As this is a subject upon which a slight misconception exists in the minds of some evangelically persuaded persons, and because, what is more generally relevant, the presence of this quality, honesty in word and deed, has more than almost any other one characteristic helped to put us in the van of the world's advance to-day, it may not unfittingly be cited here.
The argument in the case may be put thus.

Have specially religious races been proportionally truth-telling ones?
If not, has there been any other cause at work in the development of mankind tending to increase veracity?
The answer to the first question has all the simplicity of a plain negative.