Now you drive away even the merely intelligent rabble.

The average man knows your defect--knows that one who believes Christ rose from the dead is not by that fact the moral superior of one who believes he did not; knows, indeed, of God, that he cannot be a fussy, vain, blustering creature who is forever failing and forever visiting the punishment for his failures upon his puppets.
"This is why you are no longer considered a factor in civilisation, save as a sort of police-guard upon the very ignorant.

And you are losing this prestige.

Even the credulous day-labourer has come to weigh you and find you wanting--is thrilling with his own God-assurance and stepping forth to save himself as best he can.
"But, if you would again draw man, heat him, weld him, hold him--preach Man to him, show him his own goodness instead of loading him with that vicious untruth of his conception in iniquity.

Preach to him the limitless devotion of his common dull brothers to one another through their sense of oneness.