95:3.4 In the [[soil]] of these evolving [[ethical]] [[ideas]] and [[moral]] [[ideals]] the surviving [[doctrines]] of the [[Salem]] religion flourished. The [[concepts]] of [[good]] and [[evil]] found ready [[response]] in the hearts of a people who believed that "Life is given to the peaceful and death to the [[guilty]]." "The peaceful is he who does what is loved; the guilty is he who does what is hated." For centuries the [[inhabitants]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] had lived by these emerging [[ethical]] and [[social]] [[standards]] before they ever [[entertained]] the later [[concepts]] of right and wrong—good and bad. | 95:3.4 In the [[soil]] of these evolving [[ethical]] [[ideas]] and [[moral]] [[ideals]] the surviving [[doctrines]] of the [[Salem]] religion flourished. The [[concepts]] of [[good]] and [[evil]] found ready [[response]] in the hearts of a people who believed that "Life is given to the peaceful and death to the [[guilty]]." "The peaceful is he who does what is loved; the guilty is he who does what is hated." For centuries the [[inhabitants]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] had lived by these emerging [[ethical]] and [[social]] [[standards]] before they ever [[entertained]] the later [[concepts]] of right and wrong—good and bad. |