Conrads Desire: To Expand His Audience

And why preach to the already converted? Conrad continues [in a letter to
fellow writer R.B. Cunningham Graham on Grahams ironic screamin the style of
Johnathan Swifts A Modest Proposalpublished in an English newspaper, SocialDemocrat]. Honour, justice, compassion and freedom are ideas that have no converts.
There are only people, without knowing, understanding or feeling, who intoxicate
themselves with words, repeat words, shout them out, imagining they believe them
without believing in anything else but profit, personal advantage and their own
satisfaction. (83)