I'm concerned only with him who is sincere and high-minded.

Let us pass the flippant critics of things they do not understand.

But all sincere men are comrades in a deep and fine sense.
What the honest unbeliever has to keep in mind is that the darker side is but one side.

If he stands studying a crowd of the orthodox and finds therein the drunkard, the gambler, the sensualist; and if he says bitter things of the value of religion and gets in return the clerical fiat of one who is more a politician than a priest; and if he rejoins contemptuously, "This is fit for women and children," let him be reminded that he can also study the other side if he care.

If he has the instinct of a fighter he must know every army has in its trail the camp-follower and the vulture, but when the battle is set and the danger is imminent, only the true soldier stands his ground.