Conceptions that shelter the atrocious injustice of society. Of humble origin, and with an appearance so mean as to hinder his considerable natural abilities, his imagination had been ignited early by tales of men rising from the depths of poverty to positions of authority and affluence. The extreme, almost ascetic purity of his thought, combined with an astounding ignorance of worldly conditions, set before him a goal of power and prestige to be attained without the medium of arts, graces, tact, wealth—by sheer weight of merit alone. On this view, he considered himself entitled to undisputed success.
His father, a delicate dark enthusiast with a sloping forehead, had been an itinerant and rousing preacher of some obscure but rigid Christian sect—a man supremely confident in the privileges of his righteousness. In the son, individualist by temperament, once the science of colleges had thoroughly replaced the faith of conventicles, this moral attitude translated itself into a frenzied puritanism of ambition. He nurtured it as something secularly holy. To see it thwarted opened his eyes to the true nature of the world, whose morality was artificial, corrupt, and blasphemous.
The way of even the most justifiable revolutions is prepared by personal impulses disguised as creeds. The Professor’s indignation found in itself a final cause that absolved him from the sin of turning to destruction as the agent of his ambition. To destroy public faith in legality...
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