If we want to avoid giving the dose of hemlock or the sentence of banishment in the wrong case, nothing will do but a capacity to understand the subject-matter on which the immovable man is convinced, and fellowship with human travail, both near and afar, to hinder us from scanning any deep experience lightly. 
 to do him justice, we need to understand the subject-matter on which he is convinced, and to feel fellowship with his effort.
