But in order to make him feel, so that the measure of suffering may be full, even the pain that only a morally good heart can feel quite intimately, one may conceive his family, threatened by extreme plight and neediness, as imploring him to yield, and himself although righteous, yet of course not made of solid organs of feeling that are insensitive to sympathy as well as to his own plight at a moment when he wishes that he had never seen the day that exposed him to such unspeakable pain, as nonetheless remaining faithful, without wavering or even doubting, to his resolve of uprightness.