She appears to be more struck by the vehemence of my tone than by the obviousness of what I say.

She replies, feebly, "Yes, indeed," and nods her head; but she asks me, "But the moral law that you talk about, isn't it tradition ?" "No.

It is the automatic law of the common good.

Every time _that_ finds itself at stake, it re-creates itself logically.

It is lucid; it shows itself every time right to its fountain-head.