A person may not allow one’s fear of heaven to override his natural morality
It is wrong to allow one's fear of God to displace natural feelings of justice and morality.
When this happens, it indicates that one's fear of God is incorrect and impure.
Fear of God that we receive from the outside, through study of Torah, must advance our innate moral feeling. This illustrates a general principle of Rav Kook's teaching, according to which everything that we learn from the external surrounding world must develop, and not replace, our innate nature and the divine spark that has always been concealed within us.
The progress of the individual or society, even if it is material, is of great religious value.
That is, if fear of God obstructed the developments that were useful to society or the individual
This excerpt is the basis for the concept of conflict between halakha and ethics. Here Rav Kook says that fear of heaven that leads to such a situation is wrong; it contains some mistake that must be corrected. The ideal that we must pursue is an agreement between obedience to God and intuitive ethics. (For a more detailed discussion of this see P. Polonsky, Religious Zionism of Rav Kook, Chapter 7; E. Zusman, Halakha, Poetry and Natural Morality in the Teachings of Rav Kook, and paragraph 126 of Arfilei Tohar, below.)