Its fierce crusaders and meek saints might balance each other; still, the crusaders were very fierce and the saints were very meek, meek beyond all decency.

Now, it was just at this point of the speculation that I remembered my thoughts about the martyr and the suicide.

In that matter there had been this combination between two almost insane positions which yet somehow amounted to sanity.

This was just such another contradiction; and this I had already found to be true.

This was exactly one of the paradoxes in which sceptics found the creed wrong; and in this I had found it right.