But, as one who believes with his whole soul, and strives with his whole will, I attribute their betterness to the growing influences of God upon the race through them that have believed.

And I am certain of this, that, whatever they are, it needs but time and continued unbelief to bring them down to any level from whatever height.
They will either repent, or fall back into the worst things, believing no more in their fellow-man and the duty they owe him--of which they now rightly make so much, and yet not half enough--than they do in God and His Christ.

But I do not believe half the bad things Christians have said and written of atheists.

Indeed I do not believe the greater number of those they have called such, were atheists at all.

I suspect that worse dishonesty, and greater injustice, are to be found among the champions, lay and cleric, of religious Opinion, than in any other class.