The Sheila Variations

Hence we see why he is a conservative and, quite likely, a Christian.

I am more sanguine about human nature than he. But then, I think of our more dangerous emotions--anger, sadism, hatred, obsession--as things best to be turned and channeled in positive directions rather than things to be denied. And I think that, on the whole, most people will do that, even in supposedly uncivilized circumstances.