Here he tells us we find the only high morality, and the men who cling to religious dream-dogmas which they cannot physically verify, can only answer their opponents, says Mr.Stephen, '_by a shriek or a sneer_.' '_The sentiment_,' he proceeds, '_which the dreamer most thoroughly hates and misunderstands, is the love of truth for its own sake.

He cannot conceive why a man should attack a lie simply because it is a lie._' Mr.Stephen is wrong.

That is exactly what the dreamer can do, and no one else but he; and Mr.Stephen is himself a dreamer when he writes and feels like this.

Why, let me ask him, should the truth be loved?
Do the '_perceptions_,' which are for him the only valid guides, tell him so?
The perceptions tell him, as he expressly says, that the truths of nature, so far as man is concerned with them, are '_harsh_' truths.

Why should '_harsh_' things be loveable?
Or supposing Mr.Stephen does love them, why is that love '_lofty_'?
and why should he so brusquely command all other men to share it?
_Low_ and _lofty_--what has Mr.Stephen to do with words like these?
They are part of the language of dreamland, not of real life.