Is Don Quixote's Pure Religion?

The character Don Quixote said, "Therefore, as times rolled on and wickedness increased, the order of knights errant was founded for their protection, to defend maidens, relieve widows, and succour the orphans and the needy" (Cervantes, Don Quixote).

The apostle James wrote, "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (James 1:27).

Don Quixote was certainly radical and yet his radicalness fell far short of the radical religion described above by James.  As James led up to that description, he wrote, "the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing" (James 1:25).  Don Quixote was a man who lived by books, but not by The Book (the perfect law; the Bible).  Perhaps, some of his dangerous self-seeking radicalness could have been transformed (and lives saved :) had he spent as much time studying the mirror of the Word of God as he spent reading tales of knights errant.