who submits to privation, and exposes his life to danger through love
to his fellow man. It is God-like. But I smiled at the association of
ideas, and not at the sentiment. Think of Holden as a knight."

"To me there is nothing ludicrous in the thought. When I look at him,
I see not the coarse unusual dress, but the heroic soul, that would
have battled valiantly by the side of Godfrey for the holy sepulchre."

"I am afraid he will meet with only disappointment in his efforts to
reform the Indians."

"We cannot know the result of any labor. We will do our duty, and
leave the rest to God."

"They have not the degree of cultivation necessary to the reception of
a religion so refined and spiritual as the Christian. They must first
be educated up to it."

"But you would not, meanwhile, neglect the very thing for which they
are educated. Religious instruction must be a part of the education,
and it brings refinement with it."

"Certainly, if it can be received; but therein consists the
difficulty. I am afraid it is as reasonable to expect a savage to
apprehend the exalted truths of Christianity, as one unaquainted with
geometry, the forty-ninth proposition of the first book of Euclid."

"The comparison is not just. Science demands pure intellect; but
religion, both intellect and feeling, perhaps most of the latter.
The mind is susceptible of high cultivation, the heart feels