This
function of an idealistic ethical symbol, this affirmation that the moral act is an
expression of the
love and the will
of the universal Spirit, is characteristic
of the religious and Christian Ethic, the Ethic
of love and
of the anxious search for the divine presence, which,
as a result
of narrow partisanship or lack
of insight, is spurned and vilified today by vulgar rationalists and intellectualists, by so - called free - thinkers and similar riff - raff who frequent Masonic lodges.