In fact, the whole theory of the Church on virginity might be symbolized in the statement that white is a colour: not merely the absence of a colour.

All that I am urging here can be expressed by saying that Christianity sought in most of these cases to keep two colours co-existent but pure.

It is not a mixture like russet or purple; it is rather like a shot silk, for a shot silk is always at right angles, and is in the pattern of the cross.
So it is also, of course, with the contradictory charges of the anti-Christians about submission and slaughter.

It _is_ true that the Church told some men to fight and others not to fight; and it _is_ true that those who fought were like thunderbolts and those who did not fight were like statues.

All this simply means that the Church preferred to use its Supermen and to use its Tolstoyans.