THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 447 ~ every considerable value to moral and spiritual standards, apart from religion as such, I don’t quite know how one maintains them in modern life. It’s a problem.4 Here we find an indication of a second predicament by which modern man is surely afflicted. There has to be a certain standard of honesty in society if any civilized order is to be maintained. But once man has abandoned God, he is left baffled as to how the code of ethics so necessary to the smooth running of society is to be established. For hundreds of years, man has searched for an answer to this question and he has yet to find an answer. There are, of course, innumerable examples of well-intentioned attempts to bring moral upliftment to society. For instance, in an endeavor to improve relations between government officials and the public, one week of the year has been declared ‘Courtesy week’ and is supposedly observed. But when civil servants persist in their officious and high-handed demeanor, the ineffectiveness of this method becomes clear: obviously mere exhortations to be courteous are not sufficient actually to make people change their ways. With commendable moral