Were it not multiplying illustrations, the same point might be urged as to politics. Does not party loyalty often mean personal servility? As a matter of fact what is loyalty in one situation, or one age, may be simple cowardice or abjectness in another. The upshot is that the modern man has to endure the reproach of not thinking and feeling and judging and acting as men formerly did--the reproach of perfidy toward the past, its solutions and its sanctities. In consequence, it would not be a bad idea for him to cultivate respect for the past, gratitude for its achievements, appreciation for its unfinished tasks. Still, he should learn to accept the reproach as praise,--recognition that, though problems remain the same, solutions change; though sanctity abide, the objects which are sacred change. _Evolutionism no longer recognizes any fact as sacred._ Man is inwardly working on ever farther, ever overcoming the old and conquering ever the new--this must also be recognized. It is said that we ought to love the old, the finished. But is love blind? Does it consist in advocating the point of view of one's friend, not because it seems true, but just because love requires it? Is loyalty of love the faculty of adaptation with which we remodel ourselves after the image of another? Is one disloyal in love if one affirm one's self against another, or if another affirm himself against one? Surely fidelity of friendship, even of marriage, ought not to be the grave of one's own being. Surely loyalty should be the life and not the death of one's self! Surely we must all see with our own eyes, hear with our own ears, judge with our own judgments, love with our own hearts, for the quite plain reason that we have no others with which we can do these things.