When we condemn or pity the fallen, how do we know that, tempted like him, we should not have fallen as soon, and perhaps with less resistance? How can we know what we should do if we were out of employment, famine sitting gaunt and hungry at our fireside, and our children wailing for bread? We fall not, because we are not tempted. He that bath fallen may be at heart as honest as we. how do we know that our wife or sister or daughter could resist the distress, the temptation, that lost their poor abandoned sister of shame her virtue? Perhaps they also stand, only because they have not been tempted.
Sir Albert Pike "Magnum Opus"
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