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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: says the child to itself, "if I am found out; but wait until your back
is turned and I will do as I like, and lie about it." There can be no
objective punishment for successful fraud; and as no espionage can
cover the whole range of a child's conduct, the upshot is that the
child becomes a liar and schemer with an atrophied conscience. And a
good many of the orders given to it are not obeyed after all. Thus
the Secularist who is not a fool is forced to appeal to the child's
vital impulse towards perfection, to the divine spark; and no
resolution not to call this impulse an impulse of loyalty to the
Fellowship of the Holy Ghost, or obedience to the Will of God, or any
other standard theological term, can alter the fact that the
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