Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration
of life but merely its termination, the setting
of a limit to the total
number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the
principle that his actions help determine the nature
of God's everlasting memory
of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly
moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth
of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment
of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.
It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means
of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions
of quarrels between States on account
of the claims
of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great
moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value
of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every
of them to obtain justice without any danger
of being overborne by the weight and
number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious
principle — that the people are the sovereign
of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.