A MAP OF LIFE ought I to do, what would it be right for me to do, in this particular matter?” Yet, you say, is that not a sufficient guide? Unfortunately no. For conscience is a judgment of my intellect and therefore like any other such judgment it can be wrong, jjonscience is not universally infallible. It is often firm and definite in its answer: but an answer may be firm and definite, and yet wrong. By what does the soul judge, if it has no teacher outside itself? By what standard does it decide what is right? The answer is that the law of God is imprinted on man’s nature and by that he judges. In other words, God’s laws for men are not something totally outside his nature : they correspond to something God has already placed in his nature. But in the course of ages, man’s nature has grown distorted in all sorts of ways and any distortion in man’s nature will mean a distortion in the thing imprinted on it. The moon, falling on a perfectly still lake, will give a perfect image of itself; but let the lake be ever so little ruffled, and the image will be broken up into small pieces : let the Idke be really ruffled, and the image will be no more than broken sparkles of light scattered here and there. It is still from the moon that these sparkles come, but no one looking at them could form a picture of the lovely luminous globe of the moon itself. Thus, even where the distortion is greatest, no man’s nature is without some trace of God’s law still imprinted; but it is not always easy to read. If we could take the 92