Moralists have sought to persuade us that conscience is one of the most powerful agents in human behaviour. Now that reason and pity have agreed to regard hell-fire as a hateful myth, many good people have seen in conscience the chief safeguard that shall induce the human race to walk in the way of righteousness. Shakespeare has told us that conscience makes cowards of us all. Novelists and playwrights have described to us the pangs that assail the wicked, they have vividly pictured the angui...
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