But he must not call the fight needless.

The pessimist might draw as darkly as he chose the sickening marches or the sanguine wounds.

But he must not call the fight hopeless.

So it was with all the other moral problems, with pride, with protest, and with compassion.

By defining its main doctrine, the Church not only kept seemingly inconsistent things side by side, but, what was more, allowed them to break out in a sort of artistic violence otherwise possible only to anarchists.