But, he reminded himself savagely, two things remained to him - his own taste and his own pride.  If indeed the Fosterites held a monopoly on Truth (as they claimed), if Heaven were open only to Fosterites, then he, Jubal Harshaw, gentleman and free citizen, preferred that eternity of pain. filled damnation promised to all "sinners" who refused the New Revelation.  He might not be able to see the naked Face of God... but his eyesight was good enough to pick out his social equals - and those Fosterites, by damn, did not measure up!