How, in these days when we are beset by temptation, beguiled by moral relativism, and bemused by opportunities for wrongdoing which were unthought of by our forebears, can we fulfill our social and spiritual obligations and yet maintain our identity as individuals? In the earlier days of America a pattern of moral imperatives was woven by our parents when we were children; it was reinforced in school by McGuffey’s Readers; and it was reiterated in the novels we read. Right was right, and wrong wrong, and both were not only spelled out but underlined.
Passion and Social Constraint, by Ernest van den Haag. Stein and Day, $6.95
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