It is the fault you attribute to me, but wrongly; if you had ever brought an open mind to our conversations, you would have understood that my reverence even for your ideal is not a wit less than your own; it is only that I see it in another light.

You say that I have no religion: what if I have not?
Are one's final conclusions to be achieved in a year or two of early manhood?
I have my inner voices, and I try to understand them.

Often enough they are ambiguous, contradictory; I live in hope that their bidding will become clearer.

I search for meanings, try to understand myself, strive after knowledge.' 'You might as well have been born a pagan.

One voice has spoken; its bidding is the sufficient and only guide.' 'Say rather that so it seems to you.