RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 387 ~ RELIGION AND SOCIETY Society is based on a delicate network of human relationships which, under the slightest of provocations, may become tangled, broken or distorted. Injustice of a greater or lesser gravity is the usual result of such aberrations. What then does it take to keep the balance of justice? Clearly, laws must be framed which correspond to moral imperatives, which are enforceable and which maintain a proper equilibrium between the permanent and the peripheral. Despite the urgent need for such laws, society has failed—even after the experiences of two thousand five hundred years—to evolve a universally acceptable principle on which a viable set of laws might be based. As L.L. Fuller put it, the law has yet to discover itself. In his aptly entitled book, The Law in Quest of Itself, he points out that, in modern times, great minds have addressed their considerable talents to this subject, and innumerable weighty volumes have been written as a result. “Through being fashioned into a formidable science,” says the Chambers Encyclopaedia, “law has made great