A shallower falsehood, however, it is not easy to conceive.

It is true that conscience in one way may, for a time at least, survive any kind of analysis.

It may continue, with undiminished distinctness, its old approvals and menaces.

But that alone is nothing at all to the point.

Conscience is of practical value, not only because it says certain things, but because it says them, as we think, with authority.