LXXI

But therefore he may the more fitly be called a martyr by his fellow-men to all time . For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness⁠—not because he sought to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony: not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where he could only say, “I count as nothing: darkness encompasses me: yet the light I saw was the true light.”