S in is a fashionable subject.
By common consent, virtue is colorless, without character, pallid and dull weak-minded, if not foolish. Of course, it should be admitted the Europeans seem to have a greater knowledge of sin than we Americans. They are not more experienced in it, but they have experienced greater evils in the last two hundred years than has the United States. Stanley Elkins, an American historian, has commented on the fact that a nation without an official religion lacks a standard by which religion can be judged. One result is that some Americans seem to believe that dancing is the sin.