RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 432 ~ is followed is it possible for each and every individual to be equal in the eyes of the law. There is no difference then even between the ruler and his subjects. Both can be prosecuted with equal ease, for neither is the law-maker. The law-maker is God and all human beings are equal before God’s law. For centuries, jurists have been searching for just, equitable principles on which to base human laws. When one considers how successful man has been in discovering physical laws and how dismally he had failed in finding social laws, it becomes evident that something is very far wrong. The world’s first photograph was taken by a French scientist in 1826. It took him eight hours, and all he was attempting to photograph was the verandah outside his room. Nowadays photography has made such great advances that an automatic camera can take more than two thousand photographs in a second. In the length of time it took to take the first photograph, sixty million photographs can now be taken. At the beginning of the century, there were just four motor cars in the U.S.A. Now, over 100 million motor cars ply the thoroughfares of that country. Our technology is now so sophisticated that, if there is