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DARRELL -LRB- surprised -RRB- . -- `` Clear ? To me , I confess that if ever there were an instance in which the Divine tenderness , the Divine justice , which I can never presume to doubt , was yet undiscernible to my bounded vision , it is in the instance of the very life you refer to . I see a man of admirable virtues -- of a childlike simplicity of character , which makes him almost unconscious of the grandeur of his own soul -- involved by a sublime self-sacrifice -- by a virtue , not by a fault -- in the most dreadful of human calamities -- ignominious degradation ; -- hurled in the midday of life from the sphere of honest men -- a felon 's brand on his name -- a vagrant in his age ; justice at last , but tardy and niggard , and giving him but little joy when it arrives ; because , ever thinking only of others , his heart is wrapped in a child whom he can not make happy in the way in which his hopes have been set ! -- George-no , your illustration might be turned by a sceptic into an argument against you . '' GEORGE MORLEY . -- `` Not unless the sceptic refused the elementary starting - ground from which you and I may reason ; not if it be granted that man has a soul , which it is the object of this life to enrich and develop for another .