God Arises
Religion and Society
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By subscribing to this view, she indirectly admits
the truth of religious law, yet finds it difficult to
regard the initial manifestations of free intercourse
as illegal.
Despite so may arguments in favour of revealed
law, there are still a number of very vexed questions
which arise in connection with it, and in fact with
any established system of law. One of the most
important of these is whether law is relative in its
entirety, or whether there is some part of it which is
constant in nature. Or, more simply, can a law
which applies today be altered in the future? And
are there any parts of the law that are not subject to
change? There has been much intellectual foraging
into this question, but no one had arrived at any
concrete conclusions. In principle, jurists are at one
on the need in legal systems for a workable alliance
of constancy and flexibility, permanence and
change. Certain basics must remain the same, while
there inevitably be certain peripheral elements that
can be altered to suit changing conditions. But how
is a balance to be maintained between the two?
Justice Cordoza of U.S. maintains that a philosophy
reconciling the conflicting demands of permanence
