But there's another thing. Think how very seriously Scripture speaks of the arduousness of finding, the labour of seeking, the duty of thirsting after the truth. They have taken what they found, and have used no private judgment at all. But, without taking that into account, there was enough in the circumstances in which he found himself to throw him out of his ordinary state of mind. He was in a crisis of peculiar trial, which a person must have felt to understand.
Few men go to battle in cold blood, or prepare without agitation for a surgical operation.
Carlton, on the other hand, was a quiet gentle person, who was not heard to use an excited word once a year. The conversation came to a stand. Forgive me, Carlton, if I have said anything too strongly or earnestly. It has been entirely the working of my own mind. You will find them under-educated men, I suspect.