“Are there any persons that know right from wrong?”
“Not in--well, not in heaven.”
“What gives that knowledge?”
“The Moral Sense.”
“What is that?”
“Well--no matter. Be thankful that you lack it.”
“Why?”
“Because it is a degradation, a disaster. Without it one cannot do wrong; with it, one can. Therefore it has but one office, only one--to teach how to do wrong. It can teach no other thing--no other thing whatever. It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until the Moral Sense brings it into being.”
“How can one acquire the Moral Sense?”
“By eating of the fruit of the Tree, here. But why do you wish to know? Would you like to have the Moral Sense?”