The LEX TALIONIS - the Levitic law - 'Eye for eye, tooth fortooth,' is befitting only for savages. Unfortunately theChristian religion still promulgates and passionately clingsto the belief in Hell as a place or state of everlastingtorment - that is to say, of eternal torture inflicted for noultimate end save that of implacable vengeance. Of all themiserable superstitions ever hatched by the brain of manthis, as indicative of its barbarous with her, he would sanction everything at oncehe answered. origin, is the mostdegrading. As an ordinance ascribed to a Being worshipped asjust and beneficent, it is blasphemous.
The Sentimental argument, like all arguments based uponfeeling rather than reason, though not without merit, isfraught with mischief which far outweighs it. There arealways a number of people in the world who refer to theirfeelings as the highest human tribunal. When the reasoningfaculty is not very strong, the process of ratiocinationirksome, and the issue perhaps unacceptable,solution to many a complicated problem.