DOGMATISM

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me. 1005.449 It is of no use for a man to say, “I have made up my mind upon certain things,” and to keep doggedly fighting over those matters, while, at the same time, the whole of his life is unkind, ungenerous, and unlovable. Yes, by all manner of means be a martyr if you like; but do not martyr everybody else, for it is very possible to get so much grit in you, that you become all grit. There are some who have carried firmness into obstinacy, and determination into bigotry, which is a thing to be shunned. 2291.30 Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright. 3381.558