This very fact which was to them (and is to me) as plain as a pikestaff, is the very fact that has been specially diluted or denied.
But though moderns deny the existence of sin, I do not think that they have yet denied the existence of a lunatic asylum.

We all agree still that there is a collapse of the intellect as unmistakable as a falling house.

Men deny hell, but not, as yet, Hanwell.

For the purpose of our primary argument the one may very well stand where the other stood.

I mean that as all thoughts and theories were once judged by whether they tended to make a man lose his soul, so for our present purpose all modern thoughts and theories may be judged by whether they tend to make a man lose his wits.
It is true that some speak lightly and loosely of insanity as in itself attractive.