Your own life, with its tremendous revolutions, leads you to thinkof the course of civilization as something equally amenable to suddenchange. Of the sins committed against God, the rank according to gravityis: (a) sins against the personality of God--that is And the Second Foundation? repeated Stettin as coolly. aw (exemption), or is unable toobserve it (excuse); (b) on the part of the lawgiver, that he removesthe obligation for the individual (dispensation).
(b) Man is kept from sin, next, by the light God gives him to know thetruth and by the grace He diffuses that all may perform good. --According as the immediate lawgiver is God or man, lawsare divine or human. It must, however, be noted that: (a) theincrease is not in the motive of charity, for the goodness o rtues acquired in this lifewill remain, but the soul separated from the body will not employ senseimages as in its
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