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292 The Century of the Child
and lives still in wavering irresolution. This
is the result of having no place to anchor to
while the citizens of antiquity had an ethic,
which could be translated into reality and
could turn them into sincere, steadfast
personalities.
Since nineteen hundred years have proved
that there is no possibility, in a humanly con-
structed society, of living according to the
teaching of Jesus, as a practical, infallible rule
of holiness, man can escape this immoral du-
plicity only in one way: the way already
travelled over by many separate individuals,
who with Prometheus cry out, " Hast thou
not, thyself, completed all, O holy glowing
heart!" In other words, these individuals
have become convinced that Christianity is the
product of humanity. Just as little as any
other product of humanity does it exhaust ab-
solute and eternal truth.
When men cease to teach their children be-
lief in an eternal providence, without whose
will no sparrow falls from the roof, they will
be able, instead of this, to imprint on the minds
of children the new religious conception of the
divinity of a world, proceeding according to
law. The new morality will be built on this
new religious idea. It will be filled with
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