'His penetration was lynx-eyed, and his glance seemed to lay open to the soul.'

From this period Lok and Waldorf became inseparable, and from that time the misfortunes of the latter commenced. Waldorf, who was accustomed rashly to propagate novel subjects, had unconsciously prepared his mind for sceptical / tenets. Lok offered a new system of philosophy, which at once levelled sacred and political ties. Matrimonial opinions, and a belief of God, were reckoned absurdities, by this dangerous infidel. Against the latter he would urge the most sophistical and puzzling objections: he would start a thousand inconsistencies and doubts, then decide all by tenets no less atheistical than incontrovertible; at least, so Waldorf conceived them.