He had not realised that he had fallen from the height of his endeavours before he began to look about eagerly for something that he might sacrifice.

But here he was met by the difficulty that proves that in the higher stages of human development honest effort after righteousness is not one whit easier than are man's first simple efforts to put down the brute in him.

Trenholme could find in himself no offending member that was not so full of good works toward others that he could hardly destroy it without defrauding them.

He had sought nothing for himself that was not a legitimate object of desire.

The world, the flesh, and the devil had polished themselves to match all that was best in him, and blended impartially with it, so that in very truth he did not know where to condemn.