{"id":"01KG8AK7ZF419EY6DPHXYC21PB","cid":"bafkreihuhuxho4b4cpopmmv7hryrftw3lzxtxuf5fz5puoy2wp2zqkfkba","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7046,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.725Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":6975,"text":"CHAPTER XXVIII.\r\n\r\nMOOT POINTS TOUCHING THE LATE COLONEL JOHN MOREDOCK.\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Charity, charity!\" exclaimed the cosmopolitan, \"never a sound judgment\r\nwithout charity. When man judges man, charity is less a bounty from our\r\nmercy than just allowance for the insensible lee-way of human\r\nfallibility. God forbid that my eccentric friend should be what you\r\nhint. You do not know him, or but imperfectly. His outside deceived you;\r\nat first it came near deceiving even me. But I seized a chance, when,\r\nowing to indignation against some wrong, he laid himself a little open;\r\nI seized that lucky chance, I say, to inspect his heart, and found it an\r\ninviting oyster in a forbidding shell. His outside is but put on.\r\nAshamed of his own goodness, he treats mankind as those strange old\r\nuncles in romances do their nephews--snapping at them all the time and\r\nyet loving them as the apple of their eye.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, my words with him were few. Perhaps he is not what I took him\r\nfor. Yes, for aught I know, you may be right.\"\r\n\r\n\"Glad to hear it. Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only\r\nfor its being graceful. And now, since you have renounced your notion,\r\nI should be happy, would you, so to speak, renounce your story, too.\r\nThat, story strikes me with even more incredulity than wonder. To me\r\nsome parts don't hang together. If the man of hate, how could John\r\nMoredock be also the man of love? Either his lone campaigns are fabulous\r\nas Hercules'; or else, those being true, what was thrown in about his\r\ngeniality is but garnish. In short, if ever there was such a man as\r\nMoredock, he, in my way of thinking, was either misanthrope or nothing;\r\nand his misanthropy the more intense from being focused on one race of\r\nmen. Though, like suicide, man-hatred would seem peculiarly a Roman and\r\na Grecian passion--that is, Pagan; yet, the annals of neither Rome nor\r\nGreece can produce the equal in man-hatred of Colonel Moredock, as the\r\njudge and you have painted him. As for this Indian-hating in general, I\r\ncan only say of it what Dr. Johnson said of the alleged Lisbon\r\nearthquake: 'Sir, I don't believe it.'\"\r\n\r\n\"Didn't believe it? Why not? Clashed with any little prejudice of his?\"\r\n\r\n\"Doctor Johnson had no prejudice; but, like a certain other person,\"\r\nwith an ingenuous smile, \"he had sensibilities, and those were pained.\"\r\n\r\n\"Dr. Johnson was a good Christian, wasn't he?\"\r\n\r\n\"He was.\"\r\n\r\n\"Suppose he had been something else.\"\r\n\r\n\"Then small incredulity as to the alleged earthquake.\"\r\n\r\n\"Suppose he had been also a misanthrope?\"\r\n\r\n\"Then small incredulity as to the robberies and murders alleged to have\r\nbeen perpetrated under the pall of smoke and ashes. The infidels of the\r\ntime were quick to credit those reports and worse. So true is it that,\r\nwhile religion, contrary to the common notion, implies, in certain\r\ncases, a spirit of slow reserve as to assent, infidelity, which claims\r\nto despise credulity, is sometimes swift to it.\"\r\n\r\n\"You rather jumble together misanthropy and infidelity.\"\r\n\r\n\"I do not jumble them; they are coordinates. For misanthropy, springing\r\nfrom the same root with disbelief of religion, is twin with that. It\r\nsprings from the same root, I say; for, set aside materialism, and what\r\nis an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a\r\nruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not,\r\nor will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness? Don't you see?\r\nIn either case the vice consists in a want of confidence.\"\r\n\r\n\"What sort of a sensation is misanthropy?\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4YBFY3F2428H9XCV80","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK7ZFGYTREPGVJEKBT44J","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.935Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:12.058Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}