"To make a man and leave him be." But we must be sure we have made him a man,--self-acting, guided by reasoned proof, and one who, as Archbishop Whately said, "believes the principles he maintains, and maintains them because he believes them." A man is not a man while under superstition, nor is he a man when free from it, unless his mind is built on principles conducive and incentive to the service of man. CHAPTER XXI. THROUGH OPPOSITION TO RECOGNITION "So many gods, so many creeds-- So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox. LADY HESTER STANHOPE said she knew "Lord Byron must be a bad man, for he was always _intending_ something." Any improvement in the method of life is "intending something," and society ought to be tolerant of those whose badness takes no worse form. The rules Secularism prescribes for human conduct are few, and no intelligent preacher would say they indicate a dangerous form of "badness." They are: 1. Truth in speech. 2. Honesty in transaction. 3. Industry in business. 4. Equity in according the gain among those whose diligence and vigilance help to produce it. "Though this world be but a bubble, Two things stand like stone-- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own." Learning and fortune do but illuminate these virtues. They cannot supersede them. The germs of these qualities are in every human heart. It is only necessary that we cultivate them. Men are like billiard balls--they would all go into the right pockets in a few generations, if rightly propelled. Yet these principles, simple and unpretending as they are, being founded on considerations apart from modes of orthodox thought, have had a militant career. The Spanish proverb has been in request: "Beware of an ox before, of a mule behind, and of a monk on every side." The monk, tonsured and untonsured, is found in every religion.