Those who have set such store by the de- monstration that Absolute Being already contains in eternal safety within itself all values, have had as their interest the fact that while the demonstration would make no difference in the concrete existence of these values unless perhaps to weaken effort to generate and sustain them it would make adifference in their own personal attitudes in afeeling of comfort or of release from responsibility, the consciousness of a"moral holiday" in which some philosophers have found the distinction between morals and religion.