"Your creed is a harsh one. You take no count of snares and pitfalls."
"Snares and pitfalls cannot be set upon the highroad."
"And how should you define this highroad?"
"As the path selected by our unspoiled instincts. It is ignorance posing as education that first blunts those instincts, dogma disguised as religion and hypocrisy misnamed 'good behaviour.'"
"You would allow instinct to go unfettered?"
"Provided it remains unspoiled. But first I would sweep the world of lies."
"Then you think the world ready for the truth?"
"I know that the world waits for it."
"Do you think the world will recognise it?"
"In part the world has already recognised it. We lived in an age which was eternally demanding 'proofs'—and which rejected them when they were offered. But the great catastrophe which has overwhelmed us has adjusted our perspective. Few of us to-day dare to doubt the immortality of the soul. We failed to recognise joy as a proof of our survival after death, but we cannot reject the teaching of sorrow."