No wonder, therefore, that when, as a result of human perversity, the light of religion is quenched in men’s hearts, and the divinely appointed Robe, designed to adorn the human temple, is deliberately discarded,
- a deplorable decline in the fortunes of humanity immediately sets in,
- bringing in its wake all the evils which a wayward soul is capable of revealing.
- The perversion of human nature,
- the degradation of human conduct,
- the corruption and dissolution of human institutions, reveal themselves, under such circumstances, in their worst and most revolting aspects.
- Human character is debased,
- confidence is shaken,
- the nerves of discipline are relaxed,
- the voice of human conscience is stilled,
- the sense of decency and shame is obscured,
- conceptions of duty, of solidarity, of reciprocity and loyalty are distorted, and
- the very feeling of peacefulness, of joy and of hope is gradually extinguished.