You might just as well say that all idealists ought to be High Churchmen, because they ought to love everything that is high.

You might as well say that Low Churchmen ought to like Low Mass, or that Broad Churchmen ought to like broad jokes.

The thing is a mere accident of words.

In actual modern Europe a free-thinker does not mean a man who thinks for himself.

It means a man who, having thought for himself, has come to one particular class of conclusions, the material origin of phenomena, the impossibility of miracles, the improbability of personal immortality and so on.