Moral decline

Definition and stakes

Portrait of Arthur Judson Brown Arthur Judson Brown,  New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening

“ And yet I stand up to beg him to change the habits of a lifetime, to break away from the whole accumulated outcome of heredity, to make himself a target for the scorn of the world in which he lives, to break off from the consolidated social system which has shaped his being, and on the bare word of an unknown stranger to plunge into the hazardous experiment of a new and untried life, to be lived on a moral plane still almost inconceivable to him, whose sanctions and rewards are higher than his thoughts as heaven is higher than earth. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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