He shows us, moreover, that this deity is the God of conscience, a power making for goodness, a guardian and enforcer of the interests of justice and truth and purity; good to the good, and froward with the froward.

Still these societies relied on punishments just as much as our present law-makers and enforcers, possibly more, because presumably less enlightened.

Possibly the public will understand sometime, and law-makers and law-enforcers will place crime and punishment on a scientific basis.