Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the fault has passed."
Being, as he described himself with a smile, an ex-sinner, he had none of the asperities of austerity,and he professed, with a good deal of distinctness,and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a doctrine which may be summed up as follows:—