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There must, I think, be an illogicality in the justification of (say) Christian ethics without Christianity: it has a hollow centre (the Circles don't: they are really Discs*). Even Humanism, I believe, owes its character to Christian civilisation. Attempts to explain ethics in terms of biology or socio-biology do not do anything at all to justify us in continuing to observe them. First Principles beg a First Cause.

*Balls.

{See Vol. IV/V.}

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