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How far were they
applicable, those old Hebrew precepts, to modern conditions? Were they
still availing as guides to conduct?
"You are a candid person, Keith, and I think I am. I sincerely try to
be. Will you tell me what you think? You seem to have a quarrel with
Moses and his commandments, which we are taught to regard as the
keystone of ethics. I don't want to discuss things. I want to listen to
the opinions of a man so different from myself as you are. It may do me
good. And I think I could stand almost anything," he added, with a
laugh, "in this landscape--in this clear pagan light, as you call it."
"I used to be interested in such things as a boy. I suppose all
respectable boys are; and I was respectable even at that tender age.
Nowadays, though I still pick up an Oriental rug now and then, I have
no further use for Oriental gods."
"What is your objection to them?"
Mr. Keith paused before replying. Then he said:
"The drawback of Oriental gods is that they have been manufactures by
the proletariat for the use of the aristocracy.


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