Yes, but you say, "I must not expect a perfect world." If people improve even a little, I must be content. I should think much even of that small progress. But do any of them actually give up their false beliefs? How can I think they are improving? Without a real change of mind, all their outward show is just misery. They are enslaved minds that groan in private but pretend to follow reason and truth.
Yea, but sayest thou, I must not expect a Plato's commonwealth. If they profit though never so little, I must be content; and think much even of that little progress. Doth then any of them forsake their former false opinions that I should think they profit? For without a change of opinions, alas! what is all that ostentation, but mere wretchedness of slavish minds, that groan privately, and yet would make a show of obedience to reason, and truth?