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outside social action and society. This need is other than the peace, the comfort and the security that man gets out of the socialisation of human action. There is great truth in the dictum that the individual is greater than the society to which he belongs, though he is inseparable from it. But he belongs to something greater than humanity itself, namely to God, for the goal of man is the eternal and the immortal sense of existence which nothing less than God can grant. God is the Ultimate goal, transcendent to the goals of the world and the State, and all others have meaning and value only in relation to Him.
The ideal of a secular State does not mean that the state is to be or ought to become anti- religious. It is the affirmation of the principle that the State does not seek to take over the functions of religion, organized or unorganized, institutionalised or non- institutionalised. This does not mean that the Slate permits the religious institutions to do what they please. In those activities which interfere with the sound canons of social life and peace, the State is the authority; in matters of proper administration of religious institutions even the State holds itself free to legislate within the limits of its competence, though this is a difficult pose.
The one truth that we learn from religion and philosophy is that though we can distinguish aspects in human behaviour and can even investigate those
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