Many of them care nothing for morality, and have wounded, in the worst way, the souls of women.

Many of them show incessant hardness in most of the relations of life.

What, then, is it, that makes all these individuals respond so directly, so certainly, to every touch of goodness, and gentleness, and unselfishness, and purity, and faith, that is put before them upon the stage?
I think it must be that eternal truth--the rocks of good that lie forever beneath the wild seas of evil.

Those men don't know themselves; don't know that it is all useless for them to try to hide the nobility which has been put into them, to thrust it down, and, metaphorically, to dance on it.

They can't get rid of it, do what they will.