Even the murderer, and the midnight robber, can sometimes attract the wandering ray of sympathy ; but the studied blasphemer, the profane scoffer, the brutal infidel, the hardened, venal, irreclaimable reviler of the Godhead, sees the doors of his dungeon close upon him, without even the barren consolation that some eye of pity beams with benignity for his fate. He is the most forlorn, the most despised of criminals.
See biography by G. A. Aldred (1923).
