The laymen have to keep setting the divines right constantly.

Science, for instance,--in other words, knowledge,--is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance: But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
Everybody knows the story of early astronomy and the school-divines.

Come down a little later, Archbishop Usher, a very learned Protestant prelate, tells us that the world was created on Sunday, the twenty-third of October, four thousand and four years before the birth of Christ.
Deluge, December 7th, two thousand three hundred and forty-eight years B.
C.

Yes, and the earth stands on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise.

One statement is as near the truth as the other.
Again, there is nothing so brutalizing to some natures as moral surgery.
I have often wondered that Hogarth did not add one more picture to his four stages of Cruelty.