There is a community of responsibility attaching to every misdeed.

No human since Adam--nay, nor Adam himself--ever sinned entirely to himself.

And so I never am called upon to contemplate a crime or a criminal but I feel my conscience pointing at me as one of the accessories." "In a word," said Evariste Varrillat, the physician, "you think we are partly to blame for the omission of many of your Paternosters, eh ?" Father Jerome smiled.
"No; a man cannot plead so in his own defense; our first father tried that, but the plea was not allowed.

But, now, there is our absent friend.

I tell you truly this whole community ought to be recognized as partners in his moral errors.