But bating the baths and wash-houses, hempen girdles, and hairy garments, we quarrel still with the _animus_ of Diogenes and his train. Its social savageness was bad enough--its spiritual insolence was worse. The separatism--the "stand off, for I am holier than thou"--the condemnation of a whole world, if walking apart from _his_ way--the substitution of solitary exaltation for the activity of charity--the proud judgment of GOD'S world, and the presumptuous division into good and evil of the Eternal; all this was and is of the Cynic's philosophy; and all this is what we abjure with heart and soul, as the main link of the chain which binds men to cruelty, to ignorance, and to sin; for the unloosing of which we must wait before we see them fairly in the way of progress. How false the religion of condemnation!--how hardening to the heart!--how narrowing to the sympathies! We take a section for the whole, and swear that the illimitable All must be according to the form of the unit I; we make ourselves gods, and judge of the infinite universe by the teaching of our finite senses. They who do this most are they whom men call "zealous for God's glory," "stern sticklers for the truth," and "haters of latitudinarianism." And if all the social charities are swept down in their course, they are mourned over gently; but only so much as if they were sparrows lying dead beneath the blast that slew the enemy. "'Tis a pity," say they, "that men must be firm to the truth, yet cruel to their fellows; but if it must be so, why, let them fall fast as snow-flakes. What is human life, compared to the preservation of the truth?" Ah! friends and brothers--is not the necessity of cruelty the warrantry of falsehood? The truth of life is LOVE, and all which negatives love is false; and every drop of blood that ever flowed in the preservation of any dogma, bore in its necessity the condemnation of that dogma.