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- n. A body of unwritten social mores and conventions which serve to maintain societal order
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Westminster Catechism, and for the moral order of the world, and for all the despairing misery of back-street, black bombazine, Little Bethel goodness.
God, a non-moral Being, have established a moral order either for
And just as it is given to the man in modern England who is a prophet, to the man who believes in God and in the moral order of the world, to discern a new London shaping itself through all the sin and chaos of the City, so was it given to Johnto see a new Jerusalem rise from the ruins of the old.
No such claim, however, can be made in behalf of the moral order by a consistent pantheist.