Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor such a man is worthy of death and it would have been so were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.