A personality like Disney will never be free from exaggerations, slander and rumours — or, the opposite risk, is to portray him exclusively in a saintly light.
The MacIntoshes were Scotch–Irish and Orangemen and, had they possessed all the saintly qualities of the Catholic calendar, this ancestry would have damned them forever in Gerald's eyes.
However, for more than two thousand years, Confucius has been increasingly deified by later generations, and he has been covered with a layer of saintly color.