It's the negation of all we are working for, you and I." "Of course it is," Dyce replied, in a voice of conviction.

"We have to fight against him." He added, after a pause, "There is a truth in him, of course; but it's one of those truths which are dangerous to the generality of men." Constance assented, with a certain vagueness.
"Of course.

And he delivers his message so brutally." "That, no doubt, increases its chance of acceptance.

The weak, who don't know how else to assert, themselves, tend naturally to brutality.
Carlyle taught pretty much the same thing, at bottom; but his humour and his puritanism made the effect different.

Besides, the time wasn't ripe then for the doctrine of irresponsible force; religion hadn't utterly perished in the masses of men, as it has now.