To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
Truth can stand by itself.
The sooner one becomes aware of the realities and the sooner one adjusts to them, the quicker is the process of adjustment and the happier the experience of living.