Drummond is saying that every man is seeking to find truth for himself. In doing so he is constantly being measured by the "grid of morality" and judged either right or wrong by society's standards.



















Drummond: "Realizing that I may prejudice the case of my client, I must say that 'right' has no meaning to me whatsoever! ... Truth has no meaning - as a direction. But one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time is the grid of morality we have placed on human behavior: so that every act of man must be measured against an arbitrary latitude of right and longitude of wrong - in exact minutes, seconds, and degrees!" (74).