THE DUTY OF CHRISTENDOM It is only the truth that wounds.

An Irishman to-day in dealing with Englishmen is forced, if he speak truly, to wound.

That is why so many Irishmen do not speak the truth.

The Irishman, whether he be a peasant, a farm labourer, however low in the scale of Anglicization he may have sunk, is still in imagination, if not always in manner, a gentleman.

The Englishman is a gentleman by chance, by force of circumstances, by luck of birth, or some rare opportunity of early fellowship.