view justified. And even in my opinion, though I live in different
circumstances, and see greater difficulties in the way of the
realisation of any social ideal than they do, yet I feel that their way
of looking at things is useful to the larger society of men, ultimately.
And, I, like other people, have deep respect for a consistent and
courageous life, based upon a principle or principles which I may not
hold myself.

The next scene in the life of Marie and Terry took place in what they
called "The Rogues' Gallery." This was during the time that Terry held a
position in the Prudential Insurance Company, whose employ he left, as
we have seen, in order to go to Pittsburg, to find the flaw in the
tannery process, at his brother Jim's request. He hired three little
rooms, and up to the time he went to Pittsburg, he welcomed to his home
everybody who was "against" things. Later on, he became more particular
in his associates--that is to say, he demanded of them something more
than mere disreputability, to use the conventional word. But at that
time he loved everything that the world hated or cast out. That was his
principle of action, his norm of judgment. Seeking the truth with
undivided passion, he rid himself at a later time, at least partially,
of this prejudice, and became quite able to "pass up," as he calls it,
that is reject, a human being even though he might be a thief, a
practical anarchist, a prostitute, or a souteneur. But at the time of
the existence of the Rogues' Gallery he loved everything rejected by
society, without making too nice a use of his natural taste.

There, in those three little slum rooms, gathered a strange society--a
society held together on the basis of its utter rejection of the larger
society of men. To be an acceptable member of this society, the
individual must in some way be a social rebel--either practically or
theoretically, or both. When Terry saw in some being rejected by society
a spark of thought or of feeling, he was excited and happy. It was
obvious to him, as to all persons who think and have practical contact
with many different kinds of people, that there are in life no heroes
and no villains; it was obvious that in the lowest thief or prostitute
there was that possibility of light and spiritual grace which all true
souls desire. Terry's function was to make them conscious of this; to
organise, so to speak, the outcasts upon a philosophic and aesthetic
basis and so save th