'It is not for nothing that a man has in him sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident but a product of his time. While he is a descendant of the past he is a parent of the future; and his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die. Not as adventitious therefore will the wise man regard the faith that is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world.'[84]
NOTES
[1] Fragments of Science, vol. ii, p. 132.
[2] Essays, vol. i (American reprint), p. 3.
[3] Op. cit., p. 32.
[4] Op. cit., p. 58.
[5] Cf. W. K. Clifford, Lectures and Essays, vol. i, p. 95.