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Excerpt from The Ten Commandments: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Pennsylvania
But although the Ten Commandments are rudi mental in their form, they are also elemental in their meaning, and therefore universal and immor tal in their application. Just because they are germs, they are capable of all growth, or unfolding along the lines suggested in the embryo. Men may outgrow, and have outgrown, other moralities for example, the Ritual of Moses, the Institutes of Manu, the Analects of Confucius, the zend-avesta of Zoroaster, the Ethics of Aristotle, the Koran of Mohammed, the Utilitarianism of Mill. But men have not outgrown, and never will outgrow, at least so long as this world stands, the Ten Command ments of Jehovah; for he has engraven them, not only on tablets of stone, but also on tablets of an essential, eternal morality. In brief, the Ten Commandments are the axioms of morals, the summary of ethics, the itinerary of mankind, the framework of society, the vertebral column of humanity.
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