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334 The Century of the Child
This complete dualism between life and
teaching in our present-day society will con-
tinue to exist until people realise that the opin-
ions about life which are expressed by the lips,
but are denied by deeds, should no longer be
proclaimed as an absolute explanation of life
and rule of life. The permanent element in
Christianity can only be realised through the
conviction that mankind is master of Christ-
ianity just as it is over all its other creations.
The ardent idea of the Galilean carpenter,
fraternity among men, will give man no rest
until man has wiped out the last trace of in-
justice in his social relations. But the thought
will not be realised by those ideals regarded by
Jesus as absolute. This is the point of view
which has crippled man’s conscience and it ap-
plies equally to the realisation of this and all
other ideals. An ideal impossible to carry out
under the ordinary assumptions of human life,
yet to which men have given the authority of
a divine revelation, and which they conceive
of as absolute, this is the main cause for the
demoralisation which has gone on for nineteen
hundred years. The history of humanity has
really revealed to men how this absolute ideal
of theirs has been betrayed. The cause of
this demoralisation must cease before existence
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