text:  To deny error to be error or to extenuate its blame _that_ makes the outrage upon sacred truth; but to forget that it exists or if not wholly so to think of it along with that under-current of melancholy emotion at all times accompanying our meditations on the mixed characters of men--_that_ is not only allowable but it is ordered--it is a privilege dear to humanity--and well indeed might he tremble for himself who should in this be deaf to the voice of nature crying from the tomb