Poor souls! I pity them with all my heart; but I like not their ways.

They are not the ways of truth, of uprightness, of equity.

Methinks I had better hold aloof and have no dealings with them.

They seem to think because I like them--the men themselves--and mislike these persecutions even as they do, that I am one with them and understand their ways and their deeds.

But I do not, I do not, and I think not that I ever shall.