“Sometimes people … imagine that the study of religion is not particularly an intellectual attainment, and that men and women can be religious and keep moral without any particular amount of intellectual pursuit or application. But I wish to call attention to the fact, which seems to me to be self-evident, that it requires intelligence to be good, to be moral, to be virtuous, and to be honest.”
– Rulon S Wells, 1910
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Interesting. Not sure what to make of this, but it’s got me thinking at least. Thank you.
I think Brother Wells first sentence is true enough, but his second, in speaking of intelligence as a requirement comes short of the right conclusion. It is not intelligence itself, but the pursuit and application of knowledge of moral matters that enoble an intelligence of even modest ability to attain the blessings of the eternal. Probably, as he is talking about these things in the first sentence, that is what he meant.