God Arises
Religion and Society
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RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Society is based on a delicate network of human
relationships which, under the slightest of
provocations, may become tangled, broken or
distorted. Injustice of a greater or lesser gravity is
the usual result of such aberrations. What then does
it take to keep the balance of justice? Clearly, laws
must be framed which correspond to moral
imperatives, which are enforceable and which
maintain a proper equilibrium between the
permanent and the peripheral. Despite the urgent
need for such laws, society has failed—even after
the experiences of two thousand five hundred
years—to evolve a universally acceptable principle
on which a viable set of laws might be based.
As L.L. Fuller put it, the law has yet to discover
itself. In his aptly entitled book,
The Law in Quest of
Itself
, he points out that, in modern times, great
minds have addressed their considerable talents to
this subject, and innumerable weighty volumes
have been written as a result. “Through being
fashioned into a formidable science,” says the
Chambers Encyclopaedia,
“law has made great
