text:  But now--when some years have rolled over our heads and we have learned to think more calmly if not more wisely--when we have caught a glimpse of the men who fill high places and stood near enough to discover that they were of earth's common mould--when the actual din of forensic oratory deafening and monotonous has rung in our ears and we have sat and watched the solemn juggle and the stale hypocrisy with which that legal strife called a trial is conducted--now if any teacher of ethics should denounce the demoralizing principle of advocacy--the principle we mean of contending for any client or any cause that craves fee in hand--we should no longer be eager to thrust ourselves between him and the object of his indignation; we should let his wrath take its course; we should listen with patience with neutrality perhaps with secret satisfaction at his attack