“How might your faith of that first day have been sustained?” “I don’t know, I don’t know,” he said. “Do you?” “I am an American,” I said. My friend smiled. “Therefore you believe in education.” “Yes,” I said. “My education did not help me,” he said, “and I had a broader and better education than most men have had or ever will have. All it did, in the end, was to enable me to rationalize my failure of faith more easily than I might have done if I had been ignorant.
