19 ibid., vol. I, p. 19, letter to his sister Alice of 4 March 1885: ‘I am a good deal depressed at the way people mix up their beliefs with unessentials. The probability of a future life, the existence of God, the case for miracles, the validity of conscience are all hopelessly muddled so that if I say that my conscience is not justly called the voice of Christ I am excommunicated from the sympathy of people with whom I am in the deepest accord on essentials.’ Vol. II, p. 324, letter to John Sampson of 26 December 1907: ‘Give me Christ and morals–not Christianity and moralists.’