It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice
into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance
into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor,
blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into
justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely
required no character.
