Courage is a positive thing.

Yet he may well have that courage.
Suppose him in taking his stand to have taken up some social faith that for him has promise of better things.

He will find his new creed surrounded by its own swarm of prejudices, and if he refuse to worship every fetish of the free-thinker, declaring that this stands to him for a certain definite, beautiful thing, and fighting for it, he will find himself denied and scouted by his new friends.

He may find himself often in company with some supposed enemies.

He will surely need in his sincere attitude to life a freedom of mind that is not a name merely but a positive virtue that demands of him more than denunciation of obscurantism, the recognition of a personal duty and the justification of personal works.
VII The religious prejudice will be no less hard to kill.