We dare not speak out against orthodoxy, but in this naive selfishness we preserve nothing but meagerness. Afraid to lose our lives in a single rush, we lose them slowly and without the possibility of distinction the revolutionary act may have afforded us; that to say, without any payment for our forbearance of the interest that we deceive ourselves is rightfully accruing in our timidity. Without a penny paid us, we pass on to our inheritors a negative account and call these sins of the father “long suffering.” In this, we are correct.