I should justify every word, and finally I'd warn both judge and jury that if they condemned and punished me they would only make my ultimate triumph more conspicuous.

'All the great men of the past are with me,' I would cry; 'all the great minds of to-day in other countries, and some of the best in England; condemn me at your peril: you will only condemn yourselves.

You are spitting against the wind and the shame will be on your own faces.' "Do you believe I should be left to suffer?
I doubt it even in England to-day.

If I'm right, and I'm sure I'm right, then about me there would be an invisible cloud of witnesses.

You would see a strange movement of opinion in my favour.