But although all the world ranged themselves in one line to tell you 'This is wrong,' be you your own faithful vassal and the ambassador of God--throw down the glove and answer 'This is right.' Do you think you are only declaring yourself?
Perhaps in some dim way, like a child who delivers a message not fully understood, you are opening wider the straits of prejudice and preparing mankind for some truer and more spiritual grasp of truth; perhaps, as you stand forth for your own judgment, you are covering a thousand weak ones with your body; perhaps, by this declaration alone, you have avoided the guilt of false witness against humanity and the little ones unborn.

It is good, I believe, to be respectable, but much nobler to respect oneself and utter the voice of God.

God, if there be any God, speaks daily in a new language by the tongues of men; the thoughts and habits of each fresh generation and each new-coined spirit throw another light upon the universe and contain another commentary on the printed Bibles; every scruple, every true dissent, every glimpse of something new, is a letter of God's alphabet; and though there is a grave responsibility for all who speak, is there none for those who unrighteously keep silence and conform?
Is not that also to conceal and cloak God's counsel?
And how should we regard the man of science who suppressed all facts that would not tally with the orthodoxy of the hour?
Wrong?
You are as surely wrong as the sun rose this morning round the revolving shoulder of the world.

Not truth, but truthfulness, is the good of your endeavour.

For when will men receive that first part and prerequisite of truth, that, by the order of things, by the greatness of the universe, by the darkness and partiality of man's experience, by the inviolate secrecy of God, kept close in His most open revelations, every man is, and to the end of the ages must be, wrong?
Wrong to the universe; wrong to mankind; wrong to God.