29/45 It is neither the ancient Law nor the Talmud which has conquered and changed the world. Little original in itself--if we mean by that that one might recompose it almost entirely by the aid of older maxims--the morality of the Gospels remains, nevertheless, the highest creation of human conscience--the most beautiful code of perfect life that any moralist has traced. 17; _Pirke Aboth_, i.; Talmud of Jerusalem, _Peah_, i. 1; Talmud of Babylon, _Shabbath_, 63 _a_.] Jesus did not speak against the Mosaic law, but it is clear that he saw its insufficiency, and allowed it to be seen that he did so. |