God Arises
Religion and Society
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is followed is it possible for each and every
individual to be equal in the eyes of the law. There
is no difference then even between the ruler and his
subjects. Both can be prosecuted with equal ease, for
neither is the law-maker. The law-maker is God and
all human beings are equal before God’s law.
For centuries, jurists have been searching for just,
equitable principles on which to base human laws.
When one considers how successful man has been
in discovering physical laws and how dismally he
had failed in finding social laws, it becomes evident
that something is very far wrong. The world’s first
photograph was taken by a French scientist in 1826.
It took him eight hours, and all he was attempting
to photograph was the verandah outside his room.
Nowadays photography has made such great
advances that an automatic camera can take more
than two thousand photographs in a second. In the
length of time it took to take the first photograph,
sixty million photographs can now be taken. At the
beginning of the century, there were just four motor
cars in the U.S.A. Now, over 100 million motor cars
ply the thoroughfares of that country. Our
technology is now so sophisticated that, if there is
