So long as I reverence my own ideals my whole duty is done, and I commit no profanation if I laugh at theirs.

I may scoff at other people's ideals as much as I want to.

It is my right and my privilege.

No man has any right to deny it." Tracy was expecting to hear the essay debated, but this did not happen.
The chairman said, by way of explanation: "I would say, for the information of the strangers present here, that in accordance with our custom the subject of this meeting will be debated at the next meeting of the club.

This is in order to enable our members to prepare what they may wish to say upon the subject with pen and paper, for we are mainly mechanics and unaccustomed to speaking.