I am sorry he will be disappointed, for he is a fellow quite free from the flummery of his profession.

For my part, I do not see why two friends should not consent to respect each other's opinions, letting the one do his best without a God to hinder him, and the other his best with his belief in one to aid him.

Such a pair might be the most emulous of rivals in good works." Juliet returned no satisfactory response to this tentative remark; but it was from no objection any longer in her mind to such a relation in the abstract.

She had not yet at all consented with herself to abandon the faith of her father, but she did not see, and indeed it were hard for any one in her condition to see, why a man and a woman, the one denying after Faber's fashion, the other believing after hers, should not live together, and love and help each other.

Of all valueless things, a merely speculative theology is one of the most valueless.