If you care to understand why Louisiana has grown up so out of joint, note the tone of those who governed her in the middle of the last century: "What, my child," the Grand Marquis said, "you a _fille a la cassette ?_ France, for shame! Come here by my side.

Will you take a little advice from an old soldier?
It is in one word--submit.

Whatever is inevitable, submit to it.

If you want to live easy and sleep easy, do as other people do--submit.

Consider submission in the present case; how easy, how comfortable, and how little it amounts to! A little hearing of mass, a little telling of beads, a little crossing of one's self--what is that?
One need not believe in them.