Jerry by Walter Aimwell

Although the subject of our memoir was early taken from the shelter of / home and placed outside of the usual sphere of the protecting influence / of family love, he did not seem to come into very intimate contact with / the world at large; he was _in_ the world, but not _of_ it.

He had a theory, without doubt, that all men are liable to do wrong, / both ignorantly and perversely; but he had not what might be called a / _realizing faith_ in the fact, if the idea did not debase and contaminate / a noble term. That assured confidence in the existence of evil not / actually known to exist, which is the dark counterpart of a good man's / faith in good not yet revealed, formed no part of Walter Aimwell's / character.