RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 433 ~ any minuscule alteration in the rotation of the earth, leading to the shortening or lengthening of the day by even a millionth of a second, our observatories will at once detect it. The sensitivity of modern apparatus is such that, if just two words are added to a thirty-volume encyclopaedia, the increase in weight of the added ink will be exactly recorded. How great and how wonderful are the advances of man in the discovery of physical laws. But as far as social laws are concerned, he has not advanced so much as one inch. It is not that man has not strained every fibre of his being to do so; he has, in fact, made as many herculean attempts to discover viable social laws as he has to discover the secrets of the universe. The truth is that, hard as he may try to find a just basis for the laws governing his society, this will always elude him, for it is some thing which it is beyond him to find. The limitations of the human mind prevent it from grappling successfully with the infinitude of facts which it would be necessary to apprehend and systematise if truly just and equitable laws were to be enacted. We are forced to come back to the tenet that there must be a Mind