Shirking and sharking in all their many varieties have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong it was in some off-hand manner never meant to go right.

Even those on the outermost circle of such evil have been tempted into letting bad things take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world goes wrong it was in some off-hand manner never meant to go right.
