Yet, Dyce, when I think of the Sermon on the Mount--" He paused again, holding his pipe in his hand, unlit, and looking before him with wide eyes.
"I respect that as much as anyone can," said Dyce, gravely.
"As much as anyone can--who doesn't believe it." His father took him up with gentle irony.

"I don't expect the impossible.

You _cannot_ believe in it; for you were born a post-Darwinian.

Well, your religion is temporal; let us take that for granted.

You do not deny yourself; you believe that self-assertion to the uttermost is the prime duty." "Provided that self-assertion be understood aright.