‘A Perfect Resolution’ corrects certain of what the author regards as the ‘heathenistic’ (‘secular’ in contemporary parlance) aberrations of its aphoristic precursor, ‘Stairway to Judgement’, as it exposes the extent to which moral criteria are significantly dependent upon the nature of the society of which they are a part, and of how this, in turn, is conditioned by gender factors which determine its axial direction and integrity, for better or for worse, which is to say, within church- or state-hegemonic parameters. Yet this title is not, on that account, ‘straitlaced’ but a frank examination of the conflicting options and their likely destinies.