"At every step, at the work of his calling, at prayer, at meals, at home and abroad, from early morning till late in the evening, from youth to old age, the dead, the deadening formula"[3] will await him.

The path of obedience for the sake of obedience speedily degenerates into the path of mechanical obedience; and the end of that path is the triumph of machinery over life.
For it is to the letter of the Law, rather than to the spirit, that the strict legalist is bound to conform.

The letter of the Law is divine; and obedience to it is within the power of every man who will take the trouble to learn its commandments.

What the spirit of the Law may be, is beyond the power of fallen Man to determine; and were an attempt made to interpret it, the result would be a state of widespread moral chaos, for there would be as many interpretations of it as there were minds that had the courage and the initiative to undertake so audacious a task.

As it is with the Law as such, so it is with each of its numerous commandments.