The effects of this rigorous adherence to artificial and exclusive rules of caste were manifestly injurious to society, as such caste rules always are after a society has passed beyond a certain stage.
Morley argues that strict caste rules can be detrimental to societal progress once a society matures.
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How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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