FUNDAMENTAL MORAL AXIOMS.
“I will only remark,” says Tappan, “that the Divine Code announced at Sinai, and afterwards expounded and exemplified by the Redeemer of men, is in truth a collection of the fundamental Moral Axioms. They are indeed given under the form of laws, but they, at the same time, contain the affirmation of great and universal truths, uttered by the Infinite Reason, and responded to and re-affirmed by the reason of every moral being.” Logic, p. 320. Notwithstanding this plain principle of logic, we find that there are many men whose reason (so-called) does not respond to and re-affirm these great moral axioms. We shall not regard this, however, as disproving the principle above laid down, but only as showing that those men who do not thus respond to the Divine Code of Sinai, are those of whom the Apostle speaks when he tells us of certain unreasonable and wicked men.