RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 417 ~ By subscribing to this view, she indirectly admits the truth of religious law, yet finds it difficult to regard the initial manifestations of free intercourse as illegal. Despite so may arguments in favour of revealed law, there are still a number of very vexed questions which arise in connection with it, and in fact with any established system of law. One of the most important of these is whether law is relative in its entirety, or whether there is some part of it which is constant in nature. Or, more simply, can a law which applies today be altered in the future? And are there any parts of the law that are not subject to change? There has been much intellectual foraging into this question, but no one had arrived at any concrete conclusions. In principle, jurists are at one on the need in legal systems for a workable alliance of constancy and flexibility, permanence and change. Certain basics must remain the same, while there inevitably be certain peripheral elements that can be altered to suit changing conditions. But how is a balance to be maintained between the two? Justice Cordoza of U.S. maintains that a philosophy reconciling the conflicting demands of permanence