Perhaps he knows that early Christianity, so far from being a religion of pacifists, was largely a religion of soldiers.

Anyhow he thinks St.George himself a quite sufficiently solid and historical figure; and has little doubt that records or traces can be found of him.
Now the point is this; suppose that man goes to the land of the legendary combat; and finds comparatively few or faint traces of the personality of St.George.

But suppose he _does_ find, on that very field of combat, the bones of a gigantic monster unlike every other creature except the legendary dragon.

Or suppose he only finds ancient Eastern sculptures and hieroglyphics representing maidens, being sacrificed to such a monster, and making it quite clear that even within historic times one of those sacrificed was a princess.
It is surely clear that he will be considerably impressed by this confirmation, not of the part he did believe, but actually of the part he did not believe.

He has not found what he expected but he has found what he wanted, and much more than he wanted.
He has not found a single detail directly in support of St.George.
But he had found a very considerable support of St.George and the Dragon.
It is needless to inform the reader, I trust, that I do not think this particular case in the least likely; or that I am only using it for the sake of lucidity.