The analysis must shift from challenges of conclusions to probing of premises, especially in order to seek out nonobvious premises. Discussions on ethics should not neglect explicit statements regarding what the premises are. A half-way acceptance of a contract society is indefensible, and unBiblical. Cosmological questions on the relationships of men to things are antecedent to ethical questions on the relationships of men to each other. Economics deals with the relationships of men to things.
Sociology has a methodology that makes it of little help as an aid to ethics.
Therefore, it is necessary to bypass the intellectuals and go to prime thinkers and to Revelation. In Mailing Number One we outlined a program. In Mailing Number Two we stated a problem and illustrated it. In Mailing Number Three we have referred to centuries-old methods of approach. Beginning with the next issue, it is proposed to deal with the substance of the problem.