“That sounds a dangerous maxim, sir; because one can see at once that it is liable to abuse.”
“Sententious sage!
so it is: but I swear by my household gods not to abuse it.”
“You are human and fallible.”
“I am: so are you — what then?”
“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”
“What power?”
“That of saying of any strange, unsanctioned line of action, — ‘Let it be right.’”
“‘Let it be right’ —