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I mean that courage is a kind of salvation.

Salvation of what?

Of the opinion respecting things to be feared, what they are and

of what nature, which the law implants through education; and I

mean by the words 'under all circumstances' to intimate that in

pleasure or in pain, or under the influence of desire or fear, a

man preserves, and does not lose this opinion. Shall I give you

an illustration?

If you please.

You know, I said, that dyers, when they want to dye wool for

making the true sea-purple, begin by selecting their white colour

first; this they prepare and dress with much care and pains, in

order that the white ground may take the purple hue in full

perfection. The dyeing then proceeds; and whatever is dyed in

this manner becomes a fast colour, and no washing either with

lyes or without them can take away the bloom. But, when the

ground has not been duly prepared, you will have noticed how poor

is the look either of purple or of any other colour.