...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. - Jon Krakauer

How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?

And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he'd finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you'd call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot bear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”