You feel that if he cannot lead you to the Promised Land, at least he will not conduct you to the precipice and the abyss.
Above everything else he is a scholar who would put his learning at the service of his fellow-men.

Education with him is a passion, a part of his philanthropy, a part of his religion.

It is the darkness of man, not the sinfulness of man, that catches his attention.

He feels that the world is foolish because it is ignorant, not because it is wicked.

And he feels that the foolishness of the world is a count in the indictment against religion.