having an answer ready, it is he who shall provoke the
question. He must shake people out of their indifference,
and force them to make some election in this world, instead
of sliding dully forward in a dream. Life is a business we
are all apt to mismanage; either living recklessly from day
the republican spirit of Knox. It was not difficult for him
to set aside this weak scruple of loyalty. The lantern of
he were not sure that he was a great man, he was at least
sure that he was one set apart to do great things. And he
judged simply that whatever passed in his mind, whatever
moved him to flee from persecution instead of constantly
facing it out, or, as here, to publish and withhold his name
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