" Beware of old black cats with evil faces." 



jHE aggressiveness of our fore- 

 fathers puzzles and repels us. 

 J_ It is the quality which, of all 

 others, is least comprehensible to the 

 unconcern which we call tolerance, and 

 to the sensitiveness which we call hu- 

 manity. How, we ask ourselves, could 

 men have felt cock-sure of things about 

 which they knew nothing ; and why 

 should they have deemed it essential to beat their 

 convictions into other men's brains ? The speed 

 and sincerity with which principles were translated 

 into action five hundred years ago kept all Christen- 

 dom in commotion. People did not then shrug 



