The answer has been given me by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right and what is wrong.

And that knowledge I did not arrive at in any way, it was given to me as to all men, _given_, because I could not have got it from anywhere.

"Where could I have got it? By reason could I have arrived at knowing that I must love my neighbor and not oppress him? I was told that in my childhood, and I believed it gladly, for they told me what was already in my soul.